Gothic Studies, November 1st, 2005
Romanticism and the Gothic by Michael Gamer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), ISBN 0-52177-328-8, xiii + 255 pp., $59.95.
While the concept of'romanticism' has broadened to encompass a wide range of writers and genres, Michael Gamer's excellent study is the first sustained attempt to understand the relationship between romanticism and the explosion of Gothic writing with which it coincided. Reminding us that at the turn of the nineteenth century neither 'Gothic ' nor 'romantic' had acquired their modern meanings (2), Gamer traces the 'economic and ideological processes' that have...
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