Question
In a distinction traced to Ellen Moers’s book Literary Women, this concept is “explained” in a “Female” subgenre and unexplained in its “Male” counterpart. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this title concept of an essay meant as the preface to its author’s novel Gaston de Blondeville. That essay titled for this concept is structured as a dialogue between “Mr. S” and “Mr. W” and contrasts “terror” and “horror.”
ANSWER: supernatural [accept “On the Supernatural in Poetry”]
[10e] The author of “On the Supernatural in Poetry,” Ann Radcliffe, wrote many of the prototypical “Female Gothic” novels, including one titled for “The Mysteries of” this castle.
ANSWER: Castle Udolpho [accept The Mysteries of Udolpho]
[10m] An oft-cited example of the “supernatural explained” is a black one of these objects from The Mysteries of Udolpho, behind which merely lies a wax memento mori. The seer Latimer is poisoned by his wife Bertha in a novella titled for one of these objects.
ANSWER: veil [accept black veil; accept The Lifted Veil; prompt on curtain] (The novella is by George Eliot.)
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