LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
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Her sense of morality and decorum
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Her defiance of contemporary culture
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Her lack of imagination
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Her full embrace of the Gothic vision of Walpole, Beckford, and Lewis
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Radcliffe’s Gothic romances, the figure of the female heroine becomes the contested terrain in which the Enlightenment values of liberty, freedom of choice and rational decision making come into conflict with the older patriarchal values that seek to put women in their place.
Detailed explanation-3: -Evil: Gothic novels often aim to reveal the darker side of human nature. Good can be directly pitted against evil, or a character might be fighting their own battle internally between these forces.