![]() Throughout this novel the heroine, Julie, fights the passion she feels for her tutor in order to become the ideal wife to the man she was arranged to marry. In his seminal sentimental text, Julie, ou La Nouvelle Héloïse (1761), Jean-Jacques Rousseau famously utilises veiling to help define the image of ideal femininity that would influence generations of sentimental and Gothic texts. One of the most prominent motifs, the image of the veil, was made popular by Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) and has its roots in the sentimental tradition. The Gothic is often studied through an interpretation of its motifs. In fact, female Gothic fiction could be described as a sentimental novel with a twist, the twist of course being intimations of the supernatural. ![]() ![]() Gothic novels descended from the sentimental tradition. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |