Female Gothic

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Gothic Novels - Elements of Gothic Fiction - The Female Gothic and The Supernatural Explained
... dungeons, gloomy forests and hidden passages, from the Gothic novel genre emerged the Female Gothic ... authors such as Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley and Charlotte Brontë, the Female Gothic permitted the introduction of feminine societal and sexual desires ... The Medieval society, in which Gothic texts are based, granted women writers the opportunity to attribute “features of the mode as the result of the suppression of female sexuality ...

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