Gothic Writing, 1750-1820

In this provocative study, Robert Miles uses the tools of modern literary theory and criticism to analyze this very distinctive body of text. Miles introduces the reader to contexts of Gothic in the 18th Century, including its historical development and its placement within discourse and gender concerns of the period. By drawing extensively on the ideas of Michel Foucault to establish a genealogy, he brings Gothic writing in from the margins of 'popular fiction', resituating it at the center of debate about Romanticism.

Robert Miles is Professor of the Department of English Studies, University of Stirling.