CONTESTED CASTLE : GOTHIC NOVELS AND THE SUBVERSION OF DOME Hardback
by Kate Ellis
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The Gothic novel emerged out of the romantic mist alongside a new conception of the home as a separate sphere for women.
Looking at novels from Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Kate Ferguson Ellis investigates the relationship between these two phenomena of middle-class culture--the idealization of the home and the popularity of the Gothic--and explores how both male and female authors used the Gothic novel to challenge the false claim of home as a safe, protected place.
Linking terror -- the most important ingredient of the Gothic novel -- to acts of transgression, Ellis shows how houses in Gothic fiction imprison those inside them, while those locked outside wander the earth plotting their return and their revenge.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:01/06/1989
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- ISBN:9780252060489
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:01/06/1989
- Category:
- ISBN:9780252060489