This volume spans five centuries of post-Conquest literature, written at a time in which enormous social, political and linguistic changes transformed life in B

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An exploration of Gothic literature from its origins in Horace Walpole’s 1764 classic The Castle of Otranto, through Romantic and Victorian Gothic to modernis