RT bachelor thesis
T1 Queer depravity: Lesbianism in Victorian England through Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire (1897)
A1 O. Guerrero, Nazaret
A2 Filología Francesa e Inglesa
K1 Vampirism
K1 lesbianism
K1 Victorian England
K1 Gothic literature
K1 Florence Marryat
K1 fin-de-siècle
AB 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 analysisand interpretation. The novel offers a stylistic treatment of the Gothic that is completelynewfangled to its contemporaries, and serves, equally, as an object for a modern queeranalysis. In the same way that the novels of Bram Stoker and Sheridan Le Fanu have beenanalysed numerous times, this dissertation aims to look at those meanings of Marryat’s novelin which a strong homoerotic presence can be read. The novel, which challenges Victoriansocial norms with the presentation of the transgressive character Harriet Brandt, lends itself tothe identification of elements reappropriated and presented by Paulina Palmer in her articleson “Lesbian Gothic”, a subgenre also discussed in this essay. This analysis allows us to reacha new level of interpretation.
YR 2024
FD 2024-09-02
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/34573
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/34573
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 10-may-2026