The Gothic text

"The Gothic Text offers an innovative account of a much-studied mode. It combines the teleological approach to literary history developed in the author's Preromanticism with a European perspective on the one truly international literary form of its era. New insights into literary history and the history of ideas provide a framework for innovative close readings that approach classics of the genre from unusual angles. Accessibly written and argued in careful, lively detail, The Gothic Text includes extended readings of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Ann Radcliffe's The Italian, and…