Titlebook: Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle; Stephan Karschay Book 2015 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publ

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137450333Gothic; nineteenth-century science; nineteenth-century fiction; Victorian fiction; degeneration; normativ

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Introduction,Reading. It contained a moving plea written to effect an early release:.The male petitioner, who had been convicted under the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885 for ‘a(chǎn)cts of gross indecency’ committed with other men, interpreted his past crimes as the symptoms of a sexual insanity — ‘the most horrib

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Degeneration and the Victorian Sciences,harles Darwin was getting his own grand treatise into shape. . (1859), however, seems to work in the very opposite direction of Morel’s thoughts. Instead of ., it traced the vagaries involved in the . process of evolution by means of natural selection. At the same time, Darwin’s theory can be read a

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,Detecting the Degenerate: Robert Louis Stevenson’s , and Arthur Machen’s ,, analysis, not least their reception history.. When Machen’s . was published in book form by John Lane’s The Bodley Head in 1894, the novel’s favourable reviews were quick to promote it by means of approving comparisons with Stevenson’s runaway success. ‘Since Mr. Stevenson played with the crucibles

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,Normalising the Degenerate: Oscar Wilde’s , and Marie Corelli’s ,,i, a heterosexual woman spending most of her life with her best female friend; Wilde, the mastermind of the decadent élite in Britain; Corelli, ‘the beckoning siren of the bourgeoisie’ (in Annette R. Federico’s words);. Wilde, a . celebrity, who basked in the limelight of literary fame; Corelli, the

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Conclusion,ness of the term ‘degeneration’ is an appropriate opener to this study’s conclusion, as it unconsciously encapsulates the distinct discursive mechanisms that have here been identified as constitutional to degeneration discourse, both in the writings of Victorian scientists and the . Gothic.