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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