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• Provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies.
  
• Explains the origins and development of the term Gothic.
  
• Explores the evolution of the Gothic in both literary and non-literary forms, including art, architecture and film.
  
• Features authoritative readings of key works, ranging from Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto to Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho.
  
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First published in 1981.The primary purpose of this book is to serve as an introduction to writing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In addition to major Romantic poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelly the authors discuss writers such as Austen, Hazlitt and Burke, who are usually studied in a different context, and genres such as fiction and political writing, which are often cut off from the central body of poetry.

An original and highly stimulated study, this book will appeal to all those who are dissatisfied with the conventional categories into which...