"The Cambridge History of the Gothic was conceived in 2015, when Linda Bree, then Editorial Director at Cambridge University Press, first suggested the idea to

Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on

The first volume to provide an interdisciplinary, comprehensive history of twentieth and twenty-first century Gothic culture.

This first volume of The Cambridge History of the Gothic provides a rigorous account of the Gothic in Western civilisation, from the Goths' sacking of Rome in 4

Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as with