Gothic Studies, November 1st, 2004
The Gothic by David Punter and Glennis Byron, Blackwell Guides to Literature (Oxford and Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 2004), ISBN 0-631-22063-1, xx + 315pp., £16.99 pb.
This contribution to the Blackwell Guides series is unabashedly a primer for students just beginning to understand Gothic fiction and film. It is more strictly introductory than (for example) The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction or the Gothic volume in the Blackwell Companions series and about on a par, as a provider of basic information, with The Handbook to Gothic Literature (Macmillan, 1998), edited by Marie Mulvey-Roberts....
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