This guide provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates inGothic studies.Provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in G... » 

This guide provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates inGothic studies.Provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothicstudies.Explains the origins and development of the term Gothic.Explores the evolution of the Gothic in both literary and nonliterary formsincluding art architecture and film.Features authoritative readings of key works ranging from Horace WalpolesThe Castle of Otranto to Bret Easton Elliss American Psycho.Considers recurrent concerns of the Gothic such as persecution and paranoiakey motifs such as the haunted castle and figures such as the vampire and themonster.Includes a chronology of key Gothic texts including fiction and film from the1760s to the present day and a comprehensive bibliography. «