At their best Heroines merely stand (passively) for love, goodness, redemption, and innocence. They are special and precious because they are Heroines. And that is that. (679)
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The Modern Gothics are neither love stories nor stories of women-as-victims. They are adventure stories with passive protagonists. (685)
This was also reprinted in Juliann Fleenor's The Female Gothic (which has a separate entry in this database).
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