Contesting the Gothic
by James Watt
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 212
- ISBN
- 9780521024815
About this book
While literary critics have often signalled their confusion about the meaning of The Castle of Otranto, they have nonetheless been virtually united in seizing upon the second edition's subtitle, 'A Gothic Story', and locating the work as the point of origin for a whole genre.
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