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    Female identity and landscape in Ann Radcliffe's Gothic Novels
    (University of the Western Cape, 2008) Davids, Courtney Laurey; Wittenberg, Hermann; Dept. of English
    The purpose of this dissertation is to chart the development of an ambivalent female identity in the Gothic genre, as exemplified by Ann Radcliffe's late eighteenth century fictions. The thesis examines the social and literary context of the emergence of the Gothic in English literature and argues that it is intimately tied up with changes in social, political and gender relations in the period.