CONTESTED CASTLE: GOTHIC NOVELS AND THE SUBVERSION OF DOME - Softcover

Ellis, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252060482 ISBN 13: 9780252060489

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

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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Kate Ferguson Ellis is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0252060482
• ISBN 13: 9780252060489
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
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