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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An ambitious, readable, and well-argued book . . . presents useful, sometimes radical re-readings of familiar and unfamiliar gothic texts. -- Choice
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"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
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THE STRAND of popular culture we call the Gothic novel can be distinguished by the presence of houses in which people are locked in and locked out. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lively preference, voluntary spies, domestic affection, female innocence, subversive impulse, cloistered virtue, guilt culture, shame culture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Mary Wollstonecraft, Paradise Lost, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Smith, Sir Philip, Ann Radcliffe, Oxford University Press, Caleb Williams, Jane Austen, The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Old English Baron, Hardwicke Act, Radcliffian Gothic, Victor Frankenstein, Catherine Morland, Clara Reeve, Henry Tilney, Jane Eyre, Lawrence Stone, Lord Orville, Melmoth the Wanderer, Northanger Abbey, Caroline Beaufort, Critical Review New!
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THE STRAND of popular culture we call the Gothic novel can be distinguished by the presence of houses in which people are locked in and locked out. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lively preference, voluntary spies, domestic affection, female innocence, subversive impulse, cloistered virtue, guilt culture, shame culture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Mary Wollstonecraft, Paradise Lost, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Smith, Sir Philip, Ann Radcliffe, Oxford University Press, Caleb Williams, Jane Austen, The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Old English Baron, Hardwicke Act, Radcliffian Gothic, Victor Frankenstein, Catherine Morland, Clara Reeve, Henry Tilney, Jane Eyre, Lawrence Stone, Lord Orville, Melmoth the Wanderer, Northanger Abbey, Caroline Beaufort, Critical Review New!
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- The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe on 8 pages
- The Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford World's Classics) by Ann Radcliffe on 8 pages
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- The Rise of the Gothic Novel by Maggie Kilgour on 4 pages
- Reading Daughters' Fictions 1709-1834: Novels and Society from Manley to Edgeworth (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) by Caroline Gonda on 4 pages
- A Feminist Introduction to Romanticism by Elizabeth A. Fay on page 28, page 148, and Back Matter
- A Companion to the Gothic (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) by David Punter in Front Matter, page 227, and page 267
- The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England (Victorian Literature and Culture Series) by Talia Schaffer on page 130, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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