Women and Gothic. Women and the use of the Gothic from 1798 to the present in England, the United States and the Netherlands.

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Women in England, the United States and the Netherlands have used the Gothic since 1798 in several ways. This thesis explains that women have used Gothic novels and films to name the unnamed, to explain the marginal and to emancipate women.

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Women, Gothic, England, United States, Netherlands, first wave, films, Hollywood, novels, Wollstonecraft, Shelley, Austen, Rebecca, What Lies Beneath, The Others, The Lovely Bones, Dermout, Dorrestein

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