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The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology
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 Goth...more
Hardcover, 248 pages
Published
June 1st 1989
by University of Illinois Press
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