The Gothic and the Rule of the Law, 1764-1820

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 identifies not only a political and cultural, but also an ontological relation between what critics have conceptualized as 'Gothic' and the nature and function of modern juridical power.

Author: Sue Chaplin
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 04/12/2007
Pages: 183
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.61h x 5.78w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780230507555

About the Author
SUE CHAPLIN is Senior Lecturer in English at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, where she specialises in Romantic-era writing and Gothic fiction. She is the author of Law, Sensibility and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction (2004).