The Gothic Text

by Marshall Brown

Book Overview

Romantic gothic fiction is not exciting. Gothic novels are not ghost stories. Gothic novels are not women's writing. Opening with these three theses, The Gothic Text undertakes a fresh approach to a much-studied mode. Marshall Brown combines the teleological approach to literary history developed in his Preromanticism with a European perspective on the one truly international literary form of its era. New insights into literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804739137
• ISBN13: 9780804739139
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"