Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre and Cultural Conflict, 1764-1832 by James Watt

Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre and Cultural Conflict, 1764-1832

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

James Watt

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This historically grounded account of Gothic fiction takes issue with received accounts of the genre as a stable and continuous tradition. Charting its vicissitudes from Walpole to Scott, Watt shows the Gothic to have been a heterogeneous body of ...

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