This paper examines the connection between the contemporary Gothic A Dowry of Blood and its literary predecessors, Dracula, Frankenstein, and Carmilla. Through a focus on queer bodies, this work demonstrates the evolution of queer lineage-making and responses to cisheterosexual threats.

Though not a Gothic novel, Armadale is steeped in the themes, motifs, and anxieties of the Gothic, starting with the first tinge of prophecy and continuing with obsession, the sublime, and death. The most succinct way to understand the division of Gothic/non-Gothic in Armadale is…

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