East Tennessee State University Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University Electronic Theses and Dissertations Student Works 5-2021 From Byronic to Gothic Blood Sucker: Subversion toward a Non- Gendered Identity Hannah Hoover East Tennessee State University Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.etsu.edu/etd Part of the Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Commons, Literature in English, British Isles Commons, and the Literature in English, North America Commons Recommended Citation Hoover, Hannah, "From Byronic to Gothic Blood Sucker: Subversion toward a Non-Gendered Identity" (2021). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 3886. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3886 This Dissertation - unrestricted is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Works at Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. From Byronic to Gothic Blood Sucker: Subversion toward a Non-Gendered Identity ________________________ A thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of Literature and Language East Tennessee State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in English Literature ______________________ by Hannah Hoover May 2021 _____________________ Dr. D. Michael Jones, Chair Dr. Judith Slagle Dr. Scott Honeycutt Keywords: Byronic Hero, genderfluidity, sexuality, repression, subversion, vampire, gothic, Victorian, masculinity/femininity ABSTRACT From Byronic to Gothic Blood Sucker: Subversion toward a Non-Gendered Identity by Hannah Hoover Analyzing Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and linking trends of the Byronic hero that have merged into a variety of genres reveal that the hero is a mode of subversive gender expression, which has evolved within the Gothic through feminine desire.