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My discussion of Hollinghurst’s The Folding Star and Paver’s Dark Matter in Chapter Five concludes this study of contemporary queer Gothic. As well as illustrating the contribution that representations of geographical locations make to fiction of this kind, the two novels furnish us, along with some of the other works of fiction discussed above, with an opportunity to review some of the roles that Gothic motifs and narrative structures play in contributing to the representation of queer sexualities and genders.
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Notes
- 1.
Haggerty, ‘The History of Homosexuality Reconsidered’, in Chris Mounsey (ed.), Developments in the History of Sexualities, p. 5. (Haggerty 2013).
- 2.
Traub, ‘The Present Future of Lesbian Historiography’, in Haggerty and McGary (eds), The Blackwell Companion to Lesbian Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies, p. 126. (Traub 2007).
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See Chapter Three, note 21.
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Another contemporary writer who refers to the topic of female bisexuality and sexual mobility in her fiction is Ali Smith. See especially her novels The Accidental and How to be Both.
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Heather Love, Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History, p. 9. (Love 2007).
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Haggerty, George E. 2013. ‘The History of Homosexuality Reconsidered’. In Developments in the History of Sexualities, ed. Chris Mounsey, 1–15. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press.
Love, Heather. 2007. Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Traub, Valerie. 2007. ‘The Present Future of Lesbian Historiography’. In The Blackwell Companion to Lesbian Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Studies, ed. George Haggerty and Molly McGary, 124–126. New York: Blackwell.
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Palmer, P. (2016). Conclusion. In: Queering Contemporary Gothic Narrative 1970-2012. Palgrave Gothic. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-30355-4_6
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