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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"The mysteries of Udolpho"”.
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Negotiating the gothic in the fiction of Thomas Hardy
The purpose of this research is to investigate Thomas Hardy’s relation to the Gothic tradition, especially that deriving from the classic period 1760-mid-1820s. The main novels chosen for such an investigation are Two on a Tower, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Jude the …
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The Forbidden Female: Epistemophilia in the Domestic Gothic Tradition
Women in eighteenth-century Gothic novels are often portrayed by scholars as mildly rebellious in their characters and behaviors, but ultimately submissive to male characters until eventually returning to domestic circumstances similar to their origins. I join these scholarly conversations about …
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Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley: From Local to Global Ecology
his thesis undertakes an ecofeminist analysis of two prominent novelists of the eighteenth and nineteenth century: Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) and Mary Shelley (1797-1851). The six primary texts that I put under an ecofeminist lens are Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance (1790), The Romance of the …
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TransGothic Methods
This dissertation sustains a consideration of what specifically ‘TransGothic’ reading methodologies could involve and effectuate. In so doing, it challenges certain underlying assumptions present in existing scholarship on the imbrication of gothic and trans: that breadth of trans’s definition is a …
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Female identity and landscape in Ann Radcliffe's Gothic Novels
The purpose of this dissertation is to chart the development of an ambivalent female identity in the Gothic genre, as exemplified by Ann Radcliffe's late eighteenth century fictions. The thesis examines the social and literary context of the emergence of the Gothic in English literature and argues …