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The contested castle : Gothic novels and the subversion of domestic ideology / Kate Ferguson Ellis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellis, Kate Ferguson, 1938-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horror tales, English--History and criticism.
- Horror tales, English.
- Gothic revival (Literature).
- Home in literature.
- Sex role in literature.
- Domestic fiction, English--History and criticism.
- Domestic fiction, English.
- Women--Books and reading.
- Women.
- Feminism and literature.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 226 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1989]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0252015940
- 0252060482
- OCLC:
- 18560919
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