SOURCE: "The Survival of the Gothic Response," in Studies in the Novel, Vol. 6, No. 2, Summer, 1974, pp. 130-44.
In the following essay, Keech defines the Gothic novel in terms of its effect—the ability to evoke "fear characterized by foreboding and intensity"—and extends the Gothic genre to include George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and other works which reflect the modern sense of individual "impotence in a fearfully incomprehensible world."
