num_pages: 368
description: This book argues that the source of Gothic terror is anxiety about the boundaries of the a double fear of separateness and unity that has had a special significance for women writers and readers. Exploring the psychological religious and epistemological context of this anxiety DeLamotte argues that the Gothic vision focuses simultaneously on the private demons of the psyche and the social realities that helped to shape them. Her analysis includes works of English and American authors among them Henry James Mary Shelley Herman Melville Nathaniel Hawthorne Emily Bront Charlotte Bront and a number of often neglected popular women Gothicists.
language: English
title: Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic
publisher: Oxford University Press