Brossura

ISBN 10: 0252060482 ISBN 13: 9780252060489

Casa editrice: University of Illinois Press, 1989

Explores how authors used the Gothic novel to challenge the false claim of home as a safe, protected place.

From the Inside Flap:

"Ellis sheds special light on the way capitalist relations and the culture of capitalism influenced the way women lived, envisioned, wrote, and read their own narratives. It's a story at least as gripping and at least as terrifying as the male and female Gothics that Ellis so gracefully presents and interprets." -- Lillian S. Robinson, author of Sex, Class, and Culture

"The strength of Ellis's The Contested Castle is in its linking of the Gothic novel with a bourgeois ideology that specified the role and place of women in its system. . . . In the light of her work, not only the Gothic novel but the rise of the novel and the realist novel will be reread as well." -- Mary O'Connor, Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Review:

An ambitious, readable, and well-argued book . . . presents useful, sometimes radical re-readings of familiar and unfamiliar gothic texts. -- Choice