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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

• Full title: CONTESTED CASTLE
• Subtitle: GOTHIC NOVELS AND THE SUBVERSION OF DOME
• Author: Kate Ferguson Ellis
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9780252060489
• ISBN: 0252060482
• ID: 04868445
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Weight: 370 g
• Dimensions: 233 × 165 × 14 mm

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