scholarly journals “More and More Fond of Reading”: Everything You Wanted to Know about Transgender Studies but Were Afraid to Ask Clara Reeve

Humanities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Desmond Huthwaite
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Transgender Studies ◽  
Gothic Novel ◽  
Female Gothic ◽  
Partial Exclusion ◽  
Clara Reeve ◽  
Gothic Studies

Clara Reeve’s (1729–1807) Gothic novel The Old English Baron is a node for contemplating two discursive exclusions. The novel, due to its own ambiguous status as a gendered “body”, has proven a difficult text for discourse on the Female Gothic to recognise. Subjected to a temperamental dialectic of reclamation and disavowal, The Old English Baron can be made to speak to the (often) subordinate position of Transgender Studies within the field of Queer Studies, another relationship predicated on the partial exclusion of undesirable elements. I treat the unlikely transness of Reeve’s body of text as an invitation to attempt a trans reading of the bodies within the text. Parallel to this, I develop an attachment genealogy of Queer and Transgender Studies that reconsiders essentialism―the kind both practiced by Female Gothic studies and also central to the logic of Reeve’s plot―as a fantasy that helps us distinguish where a trans reading can depart from a queer one, suggesting that the latter is methodologically limited by its own bad feelings towards the former.

scholarly journals Dissolution and apotheosis of the queer body in The Lazarus Heart, by the trans author Poppy Z. Brite

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (44) ◽  
pp. 90-99
Author(s):  
Andrio J. R. dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Character Development ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Trans People ◽  
Gothic Studies

ABSTRACT In The Lazarus Heart, the trans author Poppy Z. Brite sets a brutal anatomy of gender and sexuality, and examines the violence and abjection frequently imposed on queer subjects, especially on trans people. Body, gender, and sexuality occupy a central role in the novel, which allows Brite’s work to be read as queer Gothic, a type of fiction understood as an interstice between Gothic studies and queer studies. Berenice Bento states that transsexual bodies are fabrications engendered by particular technologies, and Butler defines gender as performance; these are the central issues to the analysis I propose here. My main goal is to discuss the thematic development towards the body. I pay particular attention to the violence inflicted upon, as well as the restoration of the body, also observing the character development of Lucrece.

Gothic and Anti-Gothic, 1797–1820

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Miles
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Gothic Novel

This chapter discusses the Gothic from 1797 to 1820. The Gothic reached its apogee in the late 1790s, when it secured a third share of the novel market, after which it withered. From 1797 onward, the Gothic seems inseparable from an anti-Gothic shadow that materialized in myriad forms, from ad hoc animadversions found in the reviews mocking the genre's formulaic character, to full-blown parodies. While the quantity of novels advertising themselves as products of the ‘terror-system’ declined during the first two decades of the century, the Gothic migrated downmarket, sustaining itself, post-1820, by embedding itself in other ‘genres’. Putting aside the tale, which the Gothic dominated, one quickly perceives that the Gothic is a variety of the novel—one of its subgenres best labelled ‘romance’. Moreover, one can best and most accurately represent the Gothic novel during the period as the proliferation of several schools, above all, of Radcliffe, Godwin, Lewis, and Schiller.

scholarly journals Snaking into the Gothic: Serpentine Sensuousness in Lewis and Coleridge

Humanities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Jeremy Chow
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Prose Poetry ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Natural Histories ◽  
The Erotic ◽  
Gothic Studies

This essay charts the ways late-eighteenth-century Gothic authors repurpose natural histories of snakes to explore how reptile-human encounters are harbingers of queer formations of gender, sexuality, and empire. By looking to M.G. Lewis’s novel The Monk (1796) and his understudied short story “The Anaconda” (1808), as well as S.T. Coleridge’s Christabel (1797–1800), I centre the last five years of the eighteenth century to apprehend the interwoven nature of Gothic prose, poetry, and popular natural histories as they pertain to reptile knowledge and representations. Whereas Lewis’s short story positions the orientalised anaconda to upheave notions of empire, gender, and romance, his novel invokes the snake to signal the effusion of graphic eroticisms. Coleridge, in turn, invokes the snake-human interspecies connection to imagine female, homoerotic possibilities and foreclosures. Plaiting eighteenth-century animal studies, queer studies, and Gothic studies, this essay offers a queer eco-Gothic reading of the violating, erotic powers of snakes in their placement alongside human interlocutors. I thus recalibrate eighteenth-century animal studies to focus not on warm-blooded mammals, but on cold-blooded reptiles and the erotic effusions they afford within the Gothic imaginary that repeatedly conjures them, as I show, with queer interspecies effects.

Trans Ecology and the Transgender Road Narrative

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Seymour
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Issues ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Environmental Humanities ◽  
Transgender Studies ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Narrative ◽  
History Of

This article identifies a particular subgenre of the road narrative, the transgender road narrative, analyzing the filmTransamericaand the novelNevadaas representative examples. The first part draws on transgender studies scholarship, showing how these texts both depict a long history of trans (im)mobility and engage with the affective geographies of gender transitioning, including the idea of the body as home. The second part draws on ecocriticism and environmental humanities scholarship, comparing howTransamericaandNevadadepict landscapes and environments in relation to trans bodies. This article thus takes this subgenre as an opportunity to explore the intersection of transgender issues and environmental issues and subsequently to develop a new line of inquiry that we might call “trans ecology.” (This article has been commissioned as a supplement toThe Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism, edited by Greg Garrard.)

Gremlin: vexing VEGF receptor agonist

Blood ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 116 (18) ◽  
pp. 3386-3387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Claesson-Welsh
Keyword(s):  
Bone Formation ◽  
Old English ◽  
Receptor Agonist ◽  
Vegf Receptor ◽  
Secreted Protein ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Gremlin 1

Abstract Gremlins are mischievous creatures in English folklore, believed to be the cause of otherwise unexplainable breakdowns (the word gremlins is derived from the Old English “gremian” or “gremman,” “to vex”). Gremlin (or Gremlin-1) is also the designation of a secreted protein that is known to regulate bone formation during development. In this issue of Blood, Mitola et al report the novel role of Gremlin as a VEGFR2 agonist1 and the function of the Gremlin protein seems vexing indeed.

scholarly journals Philosophical contexts in Mary Shelley’s novel «Frankenstein»

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
Konstantin A. Ozherelyev
Keyword(s):  
New Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Gothic Novel ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

The paper analyzes the key philosophical contexts and subtexts of M. Shelley’s most famous work “Frankenstein”. According to the author of the article, the philosophical layer of this Gothic novel consists of ideas and maxims that directly inherit the concepts of the worldview platforms of Plato, J.-J. Russo, G. W. F. Hegel, K. F. Volney, W. Godwin, M. Wollstonecraft, as well as the philosophy of the New Age and romanticism. An assumption is made, on the one hand, about the proximity of some worldview attitudes of these philosophers and the author of “Frankenstein” and, on the other hand, about the deliberate introduction of philosophical passages into the fabric of the novel, which play the role of retardation elements.

The Secret of Divine Providence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Milbank
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Divine Providence ◽  
Natural Occurrence ◽  
Glorious Revolution ◽  
Horace Walpole ◽  
Matthew Lewis ◽  
Divine Justice ◽  
The Glorious Revolution ◽  
Clara Reeve ◽  
The Grotesque

The emphasis on political continuity in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution leads to a specifically Whig providentialism, examined in Chapter 3 through the work of Clara Reeve, Horace Walpole, and Matthew Lewis. In Clara Reeve’s The Old English Baron, the country Whig version, stressing links with the medieval past, unites with Newtonian theology in which God’s finger is at work in every ‘natural occurrence’ to render the supernatural revelatory of this providential care. Divine justice and historical inexorability, romance, and realism are conjoined. By contrast, the sceptical Horace Walpole, representative of the Walpolian Whig narrative of political rupture, questions Providence in The Castle of Otranto and The Mysterious Mother, and substitutes himself as quasi-divine author, whose originality lies in the grotesque mixture of realist and supernatural elements. Matthew Lewis essays an eschewal of Providential mechanisms in The Monk but here grotesque features such as the bleeding nun disclose an aporia which reveals the limit of libertine desire and a negative supernatural.

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