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The Hidden God And The Abjected Woman In The Fall Of The House Of Usher, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

Focuses on Edgar Allan Poe's `The Fall of the House of Usher.' Poe's sense of frustration and anger depicted in the story; Views regarding `The Fall of the House of Usher'; Poe's purpose and Roderick's peculiar identity as an Abject Hero and frustrated artist; Julia Kristeva's description of abjection as a religious, literary and psychic phenomenon

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Review Of The Contested Castle: The Gothic Novel And The Subversion Of The Domestic Ideology By Kate Ellis, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

Kate Ellis's purpose in The Contested Castle is to examine the relationship between two "epi-phenomena 0f middle-class culture the idealization of the home and the popularity of the Gothic"( pp. ix-x). According to Ellis, the point of connection between the two is the female reader a newly empowered figure, eagerly courted by publishers for her discretionary time and income. The new gothic novels that these women read so voraciously however did not simply reinforce the gender construction that late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century capitalist culture preferred. The gothic novel also worked to subvert those constructions, particularly the ideology that imprisoned …

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