Gothic Heroines and Natural Selection Part II: Of Corset, Happens!
Posted by connor on July 29, 2010
On Tuesday, when I posted an entry on the propensity of Ann Radcliffe heroines to faint at the most inopportune moments, I got about 15 replies. Of course, only one of them was on this blog: the rest were scattered about Facebook and Twitter (which is what comes of social media cross-promotion, I suppose!), but it was a very intelligent conversation, so I’d like to write a follow-up, including some of the comments and responding to them.
But first, a hilarious example from Udolpho:
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