However , even though modern critics attribute female gothic to the subject matter of the novel than the gender of the author, it is not possible to separate the author writing from the influence of the social , and cultural position which is determined by gender ,so ,it is women who can express their problems more explicitly than men .
Moreover, Robert Hume divides the gothic genre into ‘horror gothic’ exemplified by Radcliffe’s novel, and ‘terror gothic’ exemplified by the Mathew Lewis’s gothics. Though, Hume suggests that male gothics are “more serious and more profound ”, 115 others like Judith Wilt argues that the gothic in general “has acquired in many people’s mind the modifier ‘female’ not only because of its main writer and readers, …show more content…
35 Rictor Norton, ed., Gothic Reading: The First Wave 1764 – 1840 ( London: Leicester University Press, 2000), 1,40 .
36 Ibid.,2
37 David Punter, The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day (New York: Longman, 1980), 59.
38 Elizabeth Miller, ed., Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Documentary Volume, 304th vol. (Farmington Hills, MI : Thomson Gale, 2005), 99.
39 “The First Wave of Gothic Novels: 1765-1820,” Academic Brooklyn Cuny, http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/gothic/ history .html (accessed October 4, 2015).
40 Edmund Burke and Leslie George Mitchell, Reflections on the Revolution in France, ed. Leslie George Mitchell (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 10.
41 Sue Chaplin, Gothic Literature (Harlow: Longman, 2011), 15.
42 Joseph Crawford , Gothic Fiction and The Invention of Terrorism ( London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013), 40-41.
43 Bridget M. Marshall, The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790–1860 (New York: Routledge, 2016 ), 91.
44 Quoted in Eleanor Rose Ty, Unsex'd Revolutionaries: Five Women Novelists of the 1790s (Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1993),
Moreover, Robert Hume divides the gothic genre into ‘horror gothic’ exemplified by Radcliffe’s novel, and ‘terror gothic’ exemplified by the Mathew Lewis’s gothics. Though, Hume suggests that male gothics are “more serious and more profound ”, 115 others like Judith Wilt argues that the gothic in general “has acquired in many people’s mind the modifier ‘female’ not only because of its main writer and readers, …show more content…
35 Rictor Norton, ed., Gothic Reading: The First Wave 1764 – 1840 ( London: Leicester University Press, 2000), 1,40 .
36 Ibid.,2
37 David Punter, The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day (New York: Longman, 1980), 59.
38 Elizabeth Miller, ed., Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Documentary Volume, 304th vol. (Farmington Hills, MI : Thomson Gale, 2005), 99.
39 “The First Wave of Gothic Novels: 1765-1820,” Academic Brooklyn Cuny, http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/gothic/ history .html (accessed October 4, 2015).
40 Edmund Burke and Leslie George Mitchell, Reflections on the Revolution in France, ed. Leslie George Mitchell (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 10.
41 Sue Chaplin, Gothic Literature (Harlow: Longman, 2011), 15.
42 Joseph Crawford , Gothic Fiction and The Invention of Terrorism ( London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013), 40-41.
43 Bridget M. Marshall, The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790–1860 (New York: Routledge, 2016 ), 91.
44 Quoted in Eleanor Rose Ty, Unsex'd Revolutionaries: Five Women Novelists of the 1790s (Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1993),