Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle

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Degeneration, Normativity and the Gothic at the Fin de Siècle is written by S. Karschay and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1137450339 (ISBN 10) and 9781137450333 (ISBN 13).

This exciting new study looks at degeneration and deviance in nineteenth-century science and late-Victorian Gothic fiction. The questions it raises are as relevant today as they were at the nineteenth century's fin de siecle: What constitutes the norm from which a deviation has occurred? What exactly does it mean to be 'normal' or 'abnormal'?