%0 Journal Article 
%A O. Guerrero, Nazaret
%T Queer depravity: Lesbianism in Victorian England through Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire (1897)
%D 2024
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/34573
%X This thesis explores the representation of lesbianism in the Victorian era through literature,
specifically using Florence Marryat's The Blood of the Vampire (1897) as an object of analysis
and interpretation. The novel offers a stylistic treatment of the Gothic that is completely
newfangled to its contemporaries, and serves, equally, as an object for a modern queer
analysis. In the same way that the novels of Bram Stoker and Sheridan Le Fanu have been
analysed numerous times, this dissertation aims to look at those meanings of Marryat’s novel
in which a strong homoerotic presence can be read. The novel, which challenges Victorian
social norms with the presentation of the transgressive character Harriet Brandt, lends itself to
the identification of elements reappropriated and presented by Paulina Palmer in her articles
on “Lesbian Gothic”, a subgenre also discussed in this essay. This analysis allows us to reach
a new level of interpretation.

%K Vampirism
%K lesbianism
%K Victorian England
%K Gothic literature
%K Florence Marryat
%K fin-de-siècle
%~ Universidad de Cádiz