Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Dome - Brossura

Ellis, Kate

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0252060482 ISBN 13: 9780252060489

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 1989

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull?autore

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

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0252060482
• ISBN 13: 9780252060489
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 248
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile