Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Si�cle

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349496995
• ISBN13: 9781349496990
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"