Sexual anxieties in the English Gothic Novel

Contents
Prologue
Introduction
The meaning of the word Gothic
Origins of Gothic
Emergence of Gothic literature
The Definition and Characteristics of Literary Gothic

Chapter One
The Female Gothic
The Division of Gothic Literature in Terms of Gender
Masculine Plots of Transgression of Social Taboo
Feminine Plots of Sexual Repression

Chapter Two
The Gothic Female
The Extreme Development of the 18th Century Cult of Sensibility
The Neurotic and The Obsessive as Main Preoccupation
The Gothic Heroine Idealization and Repression

Chapter Three
Sexual Anxieties
Virtue in Distress  Persecution of the Patriarchal Power
Nightmarish Neurotic Sexuality

Chapter Four
The Hero-Villain  Victimizer and Victimized
The Byronic Figure
Transgression of Human Social and Ethical Constraints Tragic Destiny

Epilogue
Bibliografie

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