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    The Gothic Reader: History, Fear and Trembling

    A typical Gothic scene: a young girl sits alone in a darkened room lit only by a guttering candle, her fearful gaze directed not at the text she has been reading, but over her shoulder. It is as if the very ac...

    Diana Wallace in Reading Historical Fiction (2013)

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    The Female Gothic

    New Directions

    Diana Wallace, Andrew Smith (2009)

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    Introduction: Defining the Female Gothic

    The term ‘Female Gothic’ has become much contested. When Ellen Moers coined the term in 1976 she thought that it could be ‘easily defined’ as ‘the work that women have done in the literary mode that, since the...

    Diana Wallace, Andrew Smith in The Female Gothic (2009)

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    ‘The Haunting Idea’: Female Gothic Metaphors and Feminist Theory

    In Woman as Force in History (1946) Mary R. Beard identifies ‘one obtruding idea that haunts thousands of printed pages’ dealing with women: ‘It is the image of woman throughout long ages of the past as a being a...

    Diana Wallace in The Female Gothic (2009)