#ellen moers

[gothicseverance]

Here, I think, is where Mary Shelley's book is most interesting, most powerful, and most feminine: in the motif of revulsion against newborn life, and the drama of guilt, dread, and flight surrounding birth and its consequences.

—Female Gothic

Gif by @jvneeyres 🖤

[gorgonapologist]

In Gothic writings fantasy predominates over reality, the strange over the commonplace, and the supernatural over the natural, with one definite auctorial intent: to scare. Not, that is, to reach down into the depths of the soul and purge it with pity and terror (as we say tragedy does), but to get to the body itself, its glands, epidermis, muscles and circulatory system, quickly arousing and quickly allaying the physical reactions to fear.

Female Gothic: The Monster’s Mother, Ellen Moers

[gothicseverance]

Ellen Moers in Literary Women (1963) described the Gothic novel as ‘a device to send maidens on journeys.’

—Female Gothic

Art by Jason Armond 🖤

[gothicseverance]

As early as the 1790s, Ann Radcliffe firmly set the Gothic in one of the ways it would go ever after: a novel in which the central figure is a young woman who is simultaneously persecuted victim and courageous heroine.

—Female Gothic

[gothicseverance]

In Gothic writings fantasy predominates over reality, the strange over the commonplace, and the supernatural over the natural, with one definite auctorial intent: to scare. Not, that is, to reach down into the depths of the soul and purge it with pity and terror (as we say tragedy does), but to get to the body itself, its glands, muscles, epidermis, and circulatory system, quickly arousing and quickly allaying the physiological reactions to fear.

—Female Gothic

[gothicseverance]

Frankenstein's exploration of the forbidden boundaries of human science does not cause the prolongation and extension of his own life, but the creation of a new one. He defies mortality not by living forever, but by giving birth.

—Female Gothic

[antsacco]

Storia inimitabile del dandy * citazione #1

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