Since you requested more video essays, here's another one! In this video, I discuss two of my favourite novels: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Carmilla. I also talk about how Victorian society repressed sexuality, how 19th-century regulations and beliefs affected homosexuals, and how authors used Gothic fiction to criticize society. Please keep in mind that Victorians tended to fetishize or despise everyone they considered 'exotic,' so this video might contain upsetting subjects. There will be a second part of this video that will focus on contemporary representations of homosexuality in the Gothic and how authors are trying to subvert some of the problematic tropes.
Books mentioned in this video:
-Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
-Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla
-Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sources:
-A short history of LGBT rights in the UK, British Library, www.bl.uk/lgbt....
-The Buggery Act 1533, British Library, www.bl.uk/coll...
-The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885, British Library, www.bl.uk/coll...
-1885 Labouchere Amendment, UK Parliament, www.parliament...
-Elizabeth Signorotti, Repossessing the Body: Transgressive Desire in "Carmilla" and "Dracula", www.jstor.org/...
-Jeff Nunokawa, Homosexual Desire and the Effacement of the Self in "The Picture of Dorian Gray", www.jstor.org/...
-Antonio Sanna, Silent Homosexuality in Oscar Wilde's Teleny and The Picture of Dorian Gray and Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,
doi.org/10.152...
-Frank Wilson, Robert Louis Stevenson’s life with the “Other Fellow”, www.seattletim...
-Female Nudity In Art: 6 Paintings And Their Symbolic Meanings, www.thecollect...
-Christopher Hibbert, The English: A Social History 1066-1945, Paladin, 1987.
2 окт 2024