In hot pursuit: Gothic virgins and villains in nineteenth-century American fiction
This dissertation investigates how three significant nineteenth-century American female writers strategically transform a central Gothic motif – the virtuous heroine pursued by a villain who lusts for sexual and socioeconomic power – to tell new stories about gendered bodies and the erotic relations...
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2017
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/2144/24099 |