CONTESTED CASTLE - GOTHIC NOVELS AND THE SUBVERSION OF DOME (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 1989
First published:	June 1989
Authors:	Kate Ellis
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-06048-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Promotions
LSN:	0-252-06048-2
Barcode:	9780252060489

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