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date: 18 March 2025

Gothic Fiction. 

Source:
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States
Author(s):
Tracy E. BrownTracy E. Brown

The American female Gothic tradition has created works of darkness and terror that reflect the gendered experience of the female self responding to and often in conflict with the psychological, social, cultural, and physical structures within which she lives. As Michelle A. Masse has emphasized (... ...

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