Abstract
In this creative independent study with a critical component, I explore the issue of gender and domestic spaces within the Gothic haunted house genre of literature. Specifically, I address the issue with the narrow categories of women that characters of the genre often follow into: the naive, meek girl, often lonely and arriving in an unfamiliar place; and the villain or other, for example, Mrs. Danvers in Rebecca. In my own work, Act One of a larger piece, I attempt to complicate these categories through the depiction of a mother subjected to the influence of a haunted house that affects only its female occupants, and her daughter, who returns to the house only upon hearing of her mother’s death.
Advisor
Beutner, Kate
Department
English
Recommended Citation
Dudack, Zoe K., "Little Boxes" (2022). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 9929.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/9929
Disciplines
English Language and Literature | Fiction
Publication Date
2022
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis
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