Monstrous desire: Dorian Gray & Gothic Homoeroticism
Created by Quinn Chisenhall on Wed, 12/08/2021 - 19:56
Dorian Gray's place in a gothic tradition of homoerotic monstrosity
Timeline
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1872 |
Le Fanu's Carmilla PublishedThis novella was the second vampire book ever published, heavilly influenced Dracula, and was notably filled with homoerotic overtones. |
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| 1886 |
Jeckyll and Hyde PublishedRobert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde mirror's Dorian Gray's themes of double life, respectability, and immoral desire in a separated Victorian London. |
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| 1897 |
Dracula PublishedBram Stoker's Dracula was published two years after Wilde's trial and is propelled by an undercurrent of anxiety that Stoker and other closeted writers felt in the wake of Wilde's sentencing. |
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