The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology by Kate Ferguson Ellis

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

Kate Ferguson Ellis

248 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction dark mysterious slow-paced
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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...

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