ENG 580 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ann Radcliffe, Postmodern Culture, Intertextuality
17 Jul 2016
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What is the text saying: critique of gothic works and how people read them, how women were obsessed with them. Focus on an economy of expression; less is more. Parody and the intertextual referencing of the late 18th century gothic sensibility. First page introduces gothic stereotypes and then contradicts them catherine does not fit the mold. Intertextuality in pop culture: almost omnipresent in modern popular culture . A tension between her desire to exorcise the na ve clich s of sentimental women"s fiction and her unwillingness or inability to do so . The true cause of women"s confinement is shown not to be walls or financial dependency but miseducation . Move in the late 18th century from walpole"s hybrid, campy gothic to ann radcliffe"s full-on high histrionics the deadly serious and, therefore, super arch. Trapped in a gloomy medieval fortress, heroine battles . Protagonist, emily, an orphan and left with her aunt, who dies, em escapes eventually.
