“‘This horrible patrimony’: Masculinity, War and the Upper Classes in Jessie Douglas Kerruish’s The Undying Monster.”

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dc.citation.issue3
dc.citation.volume22
dc.contributor.authorMercer E
dc.date.available2020-11
dc.date.issued2020-11
dc.description.abstractThe recent reissue of Jessie Douglas Kerruish’s critically neglected Gothic novel The Undying Monster: A Tale of the Fifth Dimension (1922) describes it as ‘dated’ but its more conservative elements nevertheless exist alongside a subversive thrust. Published just four years after the end of the First World War, the novel extols the nobility of the landed gentry, positioning protagonist Oliver Hammand as representative of a positive tradition that guarantees social order in a time of chaos, while simultaneously discrediting the upper class by depicting Oliver as an untamed beast that threatens social order. The Undying Monster has something to add to understandings of Gothic narratives that use the figure of the werewolf to explore the sinister side of masculinity, in particular the possibility that depravity might belong to the upper classes, rather than the lower class as was popularly imagined.
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dc.edition.editionNovember 2020
dc.format.extent300 - 312
dc.identifierhttps://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/gothic.2020.0063
dc.identifier.citationGothic Studies, 2020, November 2020, 22 (3), pp. 300 - 312
dc.identifier.doi10.3366/gothic.2020.0063
dc.identifier.eissn2050-456X
dc.identifier.elements-id435954
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn1362-7937
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherEdinburgh University Press for the International Gothic Association
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/gothic.2020.0063
dc.relation.isPartOfGothic Studies
dc.rightsCC BY
dc.subjectClass
dc.subjectFirst World War
dc.subjectMasculinity
dc.subjectWerewolf literature
dc.subject.anzsrc2005 Literary Studies
dc.title“‘This horrible patrimony’: Masculinity, War and the Upper Classes in Jessie Douglas Kerruish’s The Undying Monster.”
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