<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>It is critical common knowledge that domestic narratives and the structure of traditional domesticity are subverted in Gothic fiction (Smith 2013). The household and its apparent security are threatened from within by unknown supernatural forces. What seems familiar becomes upsetting, strange and ‘unfamiliar’. Both Charlotte Perkins Gilman in “The Yellow Wall-Paper” and Edgar Allan Poe in “The Black Cat” give comparable views on American domesticity, both questioning two important aspects of domestic life (family and a blissful household). The two writers create a mad discourse in which the inexplicable and the uncanny infiltrate into reality and the sentimental domestic narrative is undermined.</p></abstract>

It is critical common knowledge that domestic narratives and the structure of traditional domesticity are subverted in Gothic fiction (Smith 2013). The household and its apparent security are threatened from within by unknown supernatural forces. What seems familiar becomes upsetting, strange and ‘unfamiliar’. Both Charlotte Perkins Gilman in “The Yellow Wall-Paper” and Edgar Allan Poe in “The Black Cat” give comparable views on American domesticity, both questioning two important aspects of domestic life (family and a blissful household). The two writers create a mad discourse in which the inexplicable and the uncanny infiltrate into reality and the sentimental domestic narrative is undermined.

Gothicizing Domesticity – The Case of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Edgar Allan Poe

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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It is critical common knowledge that domestic narratives and the structure of traditional domesticity are subverted in Gothic fiction (Smith 2013). The...

Gothicizing Domesticity – The Case of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Edgar Allan Poe

Published Online: Jan 18, 2019

Page range: 9 - 16

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2018-0002

Keywords
domesticity, female Gothic, male Gothic, uncanny

© 2019 Ana Cristina Băniceru, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Gothicizing Domesticity – The Case of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Edgar Allan Poe

Published Online: Jan 18, 2019

Page range: 9 - 16

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2018-0002

Keywordsdomesticity, female Gothic, male Gothic, uncanny

© 2019 Ana Cristina Băniceru, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
domesticity, female Gothic, male Gothic, uncanny