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Chastity, Sexuality, and Death: Representations of Women in Nineteenth Century Gothic Literature
Gothic Fiction Origins
What is Gothic Fiction?
“Tales of mystery and horror, intended to chill the spine and curdle the blood” (J.A. Cuddon).
Women In Early Gothic Lit
About the Romantic Period
The Monk
"Gothic fiction [is] the ‘trash of the circulating libraries’ – that is, as a cheap and tawdry form of popular entertainment" (Townshend).
Zofloya, or the Moor
"[T]here is an exhibition of wantonness of harlotry, which we should have hoped, that the delicacy of a female mind, would have been shocked to imagine" (
Annual Review
).
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