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Ghosts of the Gothic: Austen, Eliot and Lawrence
By (Author) Judith Wilt
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
823.009
Hardback
326
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
765g
In a fascinating study of what, during the last decade, rekindled an avid readership, Judith Wilt proposes a new theory of Gothic fiction that challenges its reputation as merely a formula to be outgrown or a stock of images for the creation of terror. Emphasizing instead its status as an enduring component of the imagination, she establishes the G