Ros Ballaster (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: Ballaster, Ros. “Wild Nights and Buried Letters: The Gothic ‘Unconscious’ of Feminist Criticism.” In Modern Gothic: A Reader, edited by Victor Sage and Allan Lloyd Smith, pp. 58-70. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996.
[In the following essay, Ballaster discusses “The Monkey” as a work of female Gothic literature.]
“As dream or nightmare, or both at once, [sexuality] reigns in our lives as an anarchic force, refusing to be chastened and tamed by sense or conscience to a sentence in a...
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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