This article will examine the relationship between the Women’s Movement of the late nineteenth-century and the concurrent revival of the Gothic novel by male authors as a cautionary retort to social change
Spatial confinement, though mostly affecting women in the gothic novel, cannot be restricted to female confinement only, since the trope can also be found in Walpole
The present study aims at focusing on the unique figure of the gothic heroine: to what extent she conforms to eighteenth-century conceptions of femininity compared to seminal female representations of the century
Unlike the subtler phantasmagoria of eighteenth-century gothic fiction, these tales thrived on sensational physical and psychological violence, often in contemporary settings