Theses and Dissertations

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Hagenston, Becky

Committee Member

Kardos, Mike

Committee Member

Claggett, Shalyn

Date of Degree

5-17-2014

Original embargo terms

MSU Only Indefinitely

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Campus Access Only

Major

English

Degree Name

Master of Arts

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Department

Department of English

Abstract

The scope of LGBTQ characters in fiction is wholly limited. When an LGBTQ character makes his or her way into a story, that character is usually flat and static and becomes a caricature rather than a whole character. My critical introduction maps the creation of each of my thesis stories and applies them to patterns that I have discovered while reading Victorian and contemporary literature that stereotypes, isolates, and/or punishes LGBTQ characters. I discuss the idea of displaced desire in Victorian works by Kate Chopin, M.E. Braddon, Oscar Wilde, and Sheridan Le Fanu, and also the stereotyping of characters in contemporary novels ala JK Rowling’s and Cassandra Clare’s novels. Then, in my body of fiction, I take those same patterns and turn them around so as to expose heteronormativity and filter it through a monstrous lens.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/17984

Comments

LGBTQ||displaced desire||fiction

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