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Gothic kinship is the first collection that investigates the nexus between Gothic and kinship figurations in a wide range of texts from different periods and different countries. What is it that makes certain forms of relatedness Gothic? In what sense may kinship be regarded as monstrous, or evil, or haunting? Although the preoccupation of Gothic fiction with the family has often been observed, these essays break new ground by bringing together case studies of Gothic kinship ties in film and literature and offering a synthesis and theorisation of the different appearances of the Gothic...

"I finished "The Heroine" last night and was very much amused by it. It diverted me exceedingly. I have torn through the third volume; I do not think it falls off. It is a delightful burlesque..." - Jane Austen

""Everybody" has read "The Heroine"]. There is no one so superlatively unhappy as not to have done this thing. But if such there be - if by any possibility such person should exist, we have only a few words to say to him. Go, silly man, and purchase forthwith '"The Heroine: or Adventures of Cherubina."' There are few books written with more tact, spirit, naivete, or grace, ...