The Gothic and the Rule of the Law, 1764-1820 - by Sue Chaplin (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

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.

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).