CONTESTED CASTLE : GOTHIC NOVELS AND THE SUBVERSION OF DOME, Hardback Book

CONTESTED CASTLE : GOTHIC NOVELS AND THE SUBVERSION OF DOME Hardback

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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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