The Contested Castle Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780252060489 |
Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
Imprint: | University of Illinois Press |
Pub date: | 01 Jun 1989 |
DEWEY: | 823.0872 |
DEWEY edition: | 19 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 226 |
Weight: | 370g |
Height: | 233mm |
Width: | 165mm |
Spine width: | 14mm |