Kate Ellis <br/><br/>
The Contested Castle 

 -  University of Illinois Press 
 - 248 pages 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780252060489 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>851975446 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>88027887 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Literature
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR830.T3 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823.009