"Moi" And "Autre" Of Female Gothic

"Female Gothic" is defined firstly by Ellen Moers. In Literary Women, she claims that the Female Gothic is "the work that women writers have done in the literary mode that, since the eighteenth century, we have called the Gothic."Is it enough to write "Female Literature" who is female? Through Fminist Study, we think it must be redefined to be the Gothic novel which the female writes and presents the female consciousness.What's the female consciousness in "Female Gothic"? What are the specialities of "Female Gothic" compared with "Gothic novel"?Using Lacon's"'Autre' Theory" to read the Female Gothic novels in English, the answers will be found from two aspects.Studing the history of the Female Gothic novel in English, we can find its main idea. That's how women to break away from other persons' consciousness suppression.Comparing with "Gothic novel", we can find the specialities of "Female Gothic".1 It always present the "female self consciousness" of the heroine through the consciousness conflicts between the heroine and the hero.2 The horror comes from the heroine's heart because she lost herself.3 The symbolic Gothic castle is the female writer's spiritual home. The story happened in the writer's times and her homeland.