How long does it take to read Queer Others in Victorian Gothic?
Transgressing Monstrosity
Ardel Haefele-Thomas
Queer Others in Victorian Gothic by Ardel Haefele-Thomas takes about 3 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 53 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2012. 212 pages, about 58,300 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Applying theory to literary history and to the present, Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity explores intersections in nineteenth-century British representations of sexuality, gender, class and race. From such mid-century authors as Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and J. Sheridan Le Fanu to the fin-de-siècle writers Florence Marryat and Vernon Lee, this study examines how Victorian writers utilized gothic horror as a proverbial 'safe space' in which to grapple with taboo social and cultural issues, and considers also the continuities in our current assumptions of an age that was monolithic in its disdain for those who were 'other'. Ardel Haefele-Thomas is a Victorian and Queer Studies scholar who currently holds the position of Chair of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies at City College of San Francisco.
Subjects: History and criticism, Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English, English fiction, Horror tales, Gothic revival (Literature), Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
