The death of virtue: Charlotte Dacre's critique of ideals of the feminine
At the turn of the nineteenth century in England, the Gothic novel was extremely popular for its stories of ghosts, mysterious circumstances and of course, the “damsel in distress”. These novels depicted such women as virtuous heroines, women whose chastity, perseverance in the face of adversity (of...
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2006
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/218 |