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Article: Uncanny Recognition: Queer Theory's Debt to the Gothic
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- Gothic Studies
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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CopyrightCopyright Manchester University Press May 2009. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Since the advent of academic queer theory in the early 1990s, the proliferation of publications addressing queer reading possibilities in Gothic fiction suggest that Queer Studies and Gothic Studies may be considered complementary fields of inquiry. Queer theory has certainly enabled important developments in the theorisation of the Gothic, developments which have led the way towards new and exciting perspectives on the genre. From Sue Ellen Case's seminal 1991 essay, 'Tracking the Vampire' to George Haggerty's 2006 book Queer Gothic onwards, I would not hesitate to argue that this productive relationship has had a beneficial impact on Gothic Studies.1 But thinking about the queer ...