The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
- ISBN-10
- 0521794668
- ISBN-13
- 9780521794664
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 327
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-08-29
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Jerrold E. Hogle
Description
Provides a survey of literary gothicism from its origins in Renaissance revenge tragedy, through eighteenth century novels and plays, to nineteenth and twentieth century film and fiction.
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