"the Female Gothic narrative
of the persecuted heroine in flight from a villainous father and in search of an
absent mother.3 Studies exploring a distinction between ‘Female Gothic’ and ‘Male
Gothic’ had seen this plot as typical of female writers, while male writers tended
towards a plot of masculine transgression of social taboos"
"In her Art of Darkness: A Poetics of
Gothic (1995), another contributor, Anne Williams, argued for the existence of
‘Male’ and ‘Female’ formulas, which differ in terms of narrative technique, plot, their
assumptions about the supernatural, and their use of horror/terror.5 She looked
back through the use made of Greek mythology by Freudian psychoanalysis to
locate the origins of the Female Gothic narrative (typified by female point of view,
happy ending, explained ghosts and an adherence to terror), in the myth of Psyche
and Eros, as opposed to the Oedipal myth which underpins the male version."
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~leila/documents/TheFemaleGothic-ThenNow.pdf
gabriel go hard
