Australian Literary Studies, October 1st, 2000
Gothic fiction, at least as it developed in Britain during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, typically stages an encounter with difference. In this encounter an established set of social relations is shown to be premised on events that must be disavowed or elided in the interests of `normal' social interaction. The world of the Gothic narrative, in other words, is based on repression: the dark secrets that come to light during its course indicate this. What appeared to be a stable, law-bound order turns out to be founded on crimes that must be expiated in order to facilitat...
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