Date of Award

Spring 5-8-2022

Document Type

Honors Project

University Scholars Director

Dr. Christine Chaney

First Advisor/Committee Member

Dr. Traynor F. Hansen

Keywords

Gothic, heroine, Jane Eyre, Northanger Abbey, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen

Abstract

This undergraduate research thesis is an examination of two of the most significant evolutions of the literary figure of the Gothic heroine, focusing on innovations made by Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey (1817) and Charlotte Brontë in Jane Eyre (1847). It discusses the origins of the Gothic heroine, set up by Horace Walpole in The Castle of Otranto (1764), and examines the ways that Austen and Brontë make their heroines more internally complex, bringing not only realism to the Gothic heroine but a psychological depth to the feminine Gothic.

Comments

A project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the University Scholars Honors Program.

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