SOURCE: "Learning the Hard Way: Gothic Pedagogy in the Modern Romance Quest," in Comparative Literature, Vol. 36, No. 2, Spring, 1984, pp. 146-61.
In the following essay, Merivale focuses on "Gothic pedagogy," or learning by fear.
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