“As Soon As Ever She Died, the Hauntings Began”: Revisiting the Victorian Fallen Woman as a Gothic Archetype in Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black
From the perspective of Neo-Victorian studies, it can be claimed that the character of the Woman in Black in Susan Hill’s eponymous novel, published in 1983, is based on Victorian portrayals of the myth of “the fallen woman.” These Victorian representations often highlight mythemes pertaining to Got...
Main Author: | Marta Miquel-Baldellou |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
2021-12-01
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Series: | Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media |
Online Access: | https://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/ExCentric/article/view/8499 |
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