LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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It represents a “doubling” of Queen Victoria by English women as they remake themselves in her image.
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It represents the “transformation” of the traditional Victorian woman from the private sphere to the public sphere.
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It represents the rise in psychological pathologies or “madness” in women in the late 19th century.
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It represents the “pollution” of the ideal woman by foreign influences.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The New Woman was a response to these limiting roles of wife and mother. Starting in the late nineteenth century, more and more women remained unmarried until later in their lives, gained education, organized for women’s suffrage, and worked outside the home. Women also supported the war effort during World War I.
Detailed explanation-2: -Male writers tended to cast the New Woman as either a sexual predator or as an over-sensitive intellectual unable to accept her nature as a sexual being. Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) is an example of the former, while Sue Bridehead in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure represents the latter.
Detailed explanation-3: -In her groundbreaking Literary Women (1976), Ellen Moers introduced the term “Female Gothic” to describe how eighteenth-and nineteenth-century women novelists employ certain coded expressions to describe anxieties over domestic entrapment and female sexuality.