Holland, NoyAleia, Madden2024-10-032024-10-032024-05https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/54884This is a collection of stories exploring anxieties of womanhood, gender, and desire in aesthetic conversation with the melodrama and ambiguous supernaturality of Gothic literature, particularly 19th century feminist and 20th century gay Gothic literatures, as well as queer movements in literary criticism, gay cinema, and American counterculture.Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Thesis (Open Access)