The Gothic novel emerged out of the romantic mist alongside a new conception of the home as a separate sphere for women. Looking at novels from Horace Walpole's

Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of authors associated with Gothic literature.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

George Haggerty examines the ways in which gothic fiction centers on loss as the foreclosure of homoerotic possibility and the relationship between transgressiv