Foreword
Susan Stryker
Introduction: "Transing the Gothic"
Jolene Zigarovich
Part I: Transgothic Gender
Chapter 1. "Beyond Queer Gothic: Charting the Gothic History of the Trans Subject in Beckford, Lewis, Byron"
Nowell Marshall
Chapter 2. "Go to Hell: William Beckford’s Skewed Heaven and Hell"
Jeremy Chow
Chapter 3. "Transgothic Desire in Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya"
Jolene Zigarovich
Chapter 4. "That Dreadful Thing That Looked Like A Beautiful Girl": Trans Anxiety/Trans Possibility in Three Late Victorian Werewolf Tales"
Ardel Haefele-Thomas
Part II: Transgothic Bodies
Chapter 5. "Monster Trans: Diffracting Affect, Reading Rage"
Harlan Weaver
Chapter 6. "More Than Skin Deep: Aliens, Fembots, and Trans-Monstrosities in Techno-Gothic Space"
April Miller
Chapter 7. "Gothic Gender in Skin Suits, or The (Transgender) Skin I Live In"
Anson Koch-Rein
Part III: Transgothic Rhetorics
Chapter 8. "The Media of Madness: Gothic transmedia and the Cthulhu mythos"
Jason Whittaker
Chapter 9. "Black Weddings and Black Mirrors: Gothic as Transgeneric Mode"
Hannah Priest
Chapter 10. "The state of play: transgressive caricature and transnational Enlightenment"
Ian McCormick
Index
Biography
Jolene Zigarovich is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages & Literatures at the University of Northern Iowa, USA.
"There are very few collections of essays on the Gothic and issues of gender and genre that are as cutting-edge and innovative as this one. While other studies have gotten powerfully at the relation of the Gothic to "queer" or alternative sexualities, the pieces here hone in with great analytical power and theoretical rigor on how and why various modes of Gothic render the blurring of and crossing between gender boundaries and even body types, putting in question nearly all definitions of particular sexualities and all standard articulations of the human body’s limits. These discussions even match their depiction of what is transgender with how the trans-generic mode that is the Gothic keeps transforming itself to reconceive of human multiplicity, real and imagined. This book therefore occupies a distinct and valuable niche within Gothic studies, sexuality studies, cultural studies, literature and film studies, and studies of the languages and politics of human self-definition." --Jerrold E. Hogle, Department of English, University of Arizona, USA
