Betwixt Two Ferns: Cavendish and Hobbes
As the editors of Women Poets of the English Civil War writing in their essay in Editing Early Modern would put it, the poetry of...
Female Authorial Shame
In my focus on studying “long eighteenth-century” women writers, especially my favorite, Frances Burney, but also Haywood, Behn, etc., and also later writers such as...
Loving the Gothic Novel
Of the Gothic texts spanning an approximately 75-year period that we explored this semester--Wollstonecraft’s Mary and Maria (1792), Radcliffe’s The Italian (1797), Austen’s Northanger Abbey...
Madwomen in Northanger Abbey and Frankenstein
Gilbert and Gubar’s feminist examination of female-authored literature, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (1979), draws its title...
Sublime v. Human Gothic Villains
The trope of the Gothic villain ranges from the most explicit—arguably Ann Radcliffe’s Schedoni, the ultimate personification of the Gothic sublime that she articulates in...