The Contested Castle
The Contested Castle

Author: Kate Ferguson Ellis

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 9780252060489

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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.

Three Gothic Novels
Three Gothic Novels

Author: Horace Walpole

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 1974-06-27

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 014190562X

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The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings. This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: The Castle of Otranto, published pseudonymously in 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic of the three. Vathek (1786), an oriental tale by an eccentric millionaire, exotically combines Gothic romanticism with the vivacity of The Arabian Nights and is a narrative tour de force. The story of Frankenstein (1818) and the monster he created is as spine-chilling today as it ever was; as in all Gothic novels, horror is the keynote.

The Orders of Gothic
The Orders of Gothic

Author: Dale Townshend

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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Discusses a selection of Gothic romances, dramas, and chapbooks written and published in Britain between Walpole's 1764 "The Castle of Otranto" and Maturin's Melmoth the "Wanderer of 1820". This work employs theories from Foucault's "The Order of Things" and "History of Sexuality: as a primary and typical conceptual framework.

Afterward
Afterward

Author: Edith Wharton

Publisher: Biblioasis

Published: 2016-09-19

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 1771961341

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A newly rich American couple buy an ancient manor house in England, where they hope to live out their days in solitude. One day, when the couple are gazing out at their grounds, they spy a mysterious stranger. When her husband disappears shortly after this eerie encounter, the wife learns the truth about the legend that haunts the ancient estate.