Victorian Gothic

To what extent did the Gothic haunt the nineteenth century? Victorian Gothic seeks to answer this as it introduces the reader to a timely revision of notions of the Gothic in all its manifestations. The Gothic is found to haunt all aspects of Victorian literature and culture. Moreover, Victorian Gothic connects its disparate areas of research in returning repeatedly to the question of the constitution of the subject, in a study of the Victorians from the 1830s to the 1890s.

Author Biography

RUTH ROBBINS teaches at the University of Luton. She has written numerous articles on nineteenth-century literature and is author of Literary Feminisms. – JULIAN WOLFREYS teaches at the University of Southern California. He is author of numerous books and articles on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and literary theory.