… be the first Gothic romance in English: easily lost in the ludicrous details of a colossal helmet
dropping from the sky and the … is the story of the sins of the past refusing to stay in the past, …

… Abbey would appear to be a revealing take on the Gothic romance. … and the Gothic romance,
we must attend to the specificity of power. Paradoxically, this may mean abandoning the …

… the formulaic conceptions of the gothic romance associated with the ‘gothics’, this chapter
looks at the gothic romance as the intersection of popular romance and the gothic mode. It …

… that a revaluation of the Gothic Romance is necessary, … the generic character of the Gothic
Romance and the nature of literary Romanticism. Let me examine these premises briefly. The …

… The object of this essay is to suggest that the Gothic novel is … , “the product of a dilettante
interest in the potentialities of the … Tompkins speaks of the “historical novel or Gothic Romance” …

… the first Gothic novel – certainly it was not the first work of fiction to contain what we might call
Gothic … Radcliffe, in other words, uses the potential of Gothic romance to explore the idea of …

… to the Gothic romance later in the century: the stock conventions of the genre were ridiculed
and the popularity of the form lamented in terms of what it implied regarding the intellectual …

… romances combine a love story with a mystery plot. In focusing analysis on the function of the
detection story within the larger romantic … to the form, romance readers no longer found the …

… The great majority of these are unlisted anywhere. Admittedly the Gothic romance of the
magazines is on the whole a mediocre brand of fiction—as indeed is nearly all of the periodical …

… the Romantic and the Gothic that the essays in this volume address under the rubric of ‘Romantic
Gothic… illustrates that the dating of Gothic romance from Horace Walpole’s The Castle of …