Author: Max Fincher<br />File Type: pdf<br />Queering Gothic in the Romantic Age argues that Gothic writing of the Romantic period is queer. Discussing a variety of texts, it studies how contemporary queer theory can help us to read the obliqueness and invisibility of same-sex desire in a culture of vigilance over transgressive sexuality. It articulates the complex manifestations of desire through examining the discourses of the body, in particular the gaze, and shows how the Gothics ambivalent gender politics destabilize heteronormative narratives and gives a voice to queer desires.ReviewQueering Gothic in the Romantic Age makes a significant scholarly contribution to romanticism, the Gothic, and Queer Theory. Finchers thought-provoking analysis of male-authored Gothic texts provides an important starting point for a reassessment of how reading queerly can illuminate the Gothic tradition. - Professor Andrew Smith, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK Finchers study is imaginative, bold and historically well-grounded overall...in terms of its insightful new contextualisations of early male Gothic texts, this work is worth reading. It makes a timeley and thoughtful contribution to Gothic, Romantic and Queer studies. - Sue Chaplin, British Association for Romantic Studes Bulletin and Review ...a fruitful and suggestive study of recurring motifs of secrecy, the gaze, shame, and their links to same-sex desire and homophobia. - Sharon Ruston, Times Literary Supplement If Gothic Studies restore the body to Romanticisms usual focus on the mind, Finchers work foregrounds just how messy, indeterminable and queer the bodies of Romantic men really are this study braids gay and lesbian history with queer theory to penetrate the Gothic in new and innovative ways. - Routledge ABES June 2011 About the AuthorMAX FINCHER gained his PhD from Kings College London, UK, where he taught on womens writing and the Gothic. He has written articles and reviews on Gothic and queer studies for Gothic Studies, Film Quarterly and the Times Literary Supplement. His research interests are in the history of sexuality, queer studies and Romanticism.