This book is the first full-length theoretical and historical study of the relation between early Gothic fiction and an emerging modern rule of law. The work id

Tracing the use of legal themes in the gothic novel, Bridget M. Marshall shows these devices reflect an outpouring of anxiety about the nature of justice. On bo

In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto (1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing on national anxieties concerning

• This book explores a complex historical background to fully contextualise the development of the early Gothic mode and the servant character’s role as a s

The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth Century Novel is the first published book to cover the 'eighteenth-century English novel' in its entirety. It is an indisp