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 that it is intimately tied up with changes in social, political and gender relations in the period.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

University of the Western Cape

Year dc:date.issued

2008

Author dc:creator

• Davids, Courtney

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Wittenberg, Hermann

• Gothic literature
• Ann Radcliffe
• The mysteries of Udolpho
• Female identity
• Romanticism
• Domestic space
• Surveillance
• Sensibility
• The sublime
• Landscape