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Title | Female Identity and Landscape in Ann Radcliffeâs Gothic Novels. |
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Author | Davids, Courtney Laurey. |
Subject | Gothic literature |
Subject | Ann Radcliffe |
Subject | The Mysteries of Udolpho |
Subject | Female identity |
Subject | Romanticism |
Subject | Domestic space |
Subject | Surveillance |
Subject | Sensibility |
Subject | The Sublime |
Subject | Landscape. |
Date | 2008 |
Type | Thesis and dissertation |
Format | |
Abstract | The purpose of this dissertation is to chart the development of an ambivalent female identity in the Gothic genre, as exemplified by Ann Radcliffe&rsquo |
Abstract | s late eighteenth century fictions. The thesis examines the social and literary context of the emergence of the Gothic in English literature and argues that it is intimately tied up with changes in social, political and gender relations in the period. |
Identifier | http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_6931_1266275098 |