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

Ellis, Kate

 
9780252060489: CONTESTED CASTLE: GOTHIC NOVELS AND THE SUBVERSION OF DOME
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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

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Verlag
University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1989
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0252060482
ISBN 13 
9780252060489
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
248
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

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