Snaking into the Gothic: Serpentine Sensuousness in Lewis and Coleridge

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 <i>The Monk </i>(1796) and his understudie...

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Main Author: Jeremy Chow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-03-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/10/1/52