Female Identity and Landscape in Ann Radcliffe's Gothic Novels PDF
By:Courtney Laurey Davids
Published on 2008 by

The purpose of this dissertation is to chart the development of an ambivalent female identity in the Gothic genre, as exemplified by Ann Radcliffes 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. The thesis argues against a superficial reading of the Gothic genre that sees it merely as a counterpoint to eighteenth century values of order, structure, rationality and reason in its depiction of excess, instability and the transgression of conventional hierarchies. In her representation of Gothic castles and ruins, Radcliffe destabilizes domestic space and constructs highly artificial landscapes in which an emergent Enlightenment female subjecthood is allowed to emerge. Radcliffes Gothic fictions, especially Mysteries of Udolpho the focus of this thesis envision new gender roles, upsetting late eighteenth century notions of male power and female subordination. The novels thus challenge and rework late eighteenth century perceptions of marriage, love and desire, refashioning the novel as a literary form accessible to female authorship.
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