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The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology Book

Explores how authors used the Gothic novel to challenge the false claim of home as a safe, protected place.Read More

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    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.

  • 0252060482
  • 9780252060489
  • Kate Ferguson Ellis
  • 1 June 1989
  • University of Illinois Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 248
  • Reissue
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