 | Gothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century Fiction Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Horror tales English -- History and criticism; Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Horror tales American -- History and critic; The Gothic has long been seen as offering a subversive challenge to the norms of realism. Locating both Gothic and mainstream Victorian fiction in a larger literary and cultural field, Peter K. Garrett argues that the oppositions usually posed between... Peter K. Garrett is Professor of English at the University of Illinois. He is the author of The Victorian Multiplot Novel and Scene and Symbol from George Eliot to James Joyce and editor of Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Dubliners . |
