Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle

By Stephan Karschay

This exciting new study looks at degeneration and deviance in nineteenth-century science and late-Victorian Gothic fiction. The questions it raises are as relevant today as they were at the nineteenth century's fin de siecle: What constitutes the norm from which a deviation has occurred? What exactly does it mean to be 'normal' or 'abnormal'?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137450320
• ISBN13: 9781137450326
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"