Monsters Without to Monsters Within: The Transformation of the Supernatural from English to American Gothic Fiction
Because works of Gothic fiction were often disregarded as sensationalist and unsophisticated, my aim in this thesis is to explore the ways in which these works actually drew attention to real societal issues and fears, particularly anxieties around Otherness and identity and gender construction. I i...
Main Author: | Liu, Tryphena Y |
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Format: | Others |
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Scholarship @ Claremont
2015
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Online Access: | http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/632 http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1721&context=scripps_theses |
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