The Gothic literary tradition, established in the mid-eighteenth century, was significantly reinvented during the Victorian period. This move towards a reclassification of the Gothic as distinctly Victorian supports Fred Botting’s argument for a re-evaluation of the Gothic and a break away from more...
Female Gothic; fairy tale; feminist criticism; women’s literature; Victorian; nineteenth-century gender; nineteenth-century literature; gender studies; bildungsroman; desire 1. Introduction In the past half-century, studies of Gothic fairy tales have accelerated alongside studies of fairy tales and ...