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Repeatedly, women writers’ turn to Gothic in formulating critiques of past gender inequalities and injustices reproduces insidious patterns of victimisation, which preclude rather than enable female self-actualisation in neo-Victorian fiction. While such denunciations of Victorian wrongs might be regarded as opportunistic, the frustration of female selfhood is also linked to wider Gothic motifs of doubling, abjection and the traumatised subject’s spectrality even to itself. Via texts by Marghanita Laski, Maggie Power, and Kate Williams, which reprise aspects of nineteenth-century Gothic, this chapter explores neo-Victorian renegotiations of gender debates centred around essentialism and performativity, around autonomous agency and what might be termed ‘subjectless subjectivity’.
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