Joanna Russ’s scientific contributions

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Publications (1)

Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic
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March 2004

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48 Citations

The Journal of Popular Culture

Joanna Russ

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... Firstly, the death of a beautiful woman usually contains passivity. "Most striking about Gothic novels is the combination of intrigue, crime, and danger with the Heroine's complete passivity" [4]. Russ explains that these women are usually not over 30 years old and extremely beautiful, and they will cause emotional or struggling problems just because they exist. ...

Reference:

The Death and Female Beauty in Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover” (1836) and Pu Songling’s “Lotus Fragrance” (1740)
Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic
  • Citing Article

  • March 2004

The Journal of Popular Culture

Joanna Russ