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

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

(Paperback)-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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    Author: Kate Ellis
    Number Of Pages: 248
    Category: Paperback
    Brand: University of Illinois Press
    Dewey Decimal Number: 823.0872
    Label: University of Illinois Press
    Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
    Product Group: Book
    Publication Date: 1989-06-01
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