Theories of the Gothic; women and the Gothic; Gothic sublimity - Ann Radcliffe's "The Mysteries of Udolpho"; Gothic parody - Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" and Eaton Stannard Barrett's "The Heroine"; anti-clerical Gothic - Matthew Lewis's "The Monk"; pseudo-scientific Gothic - Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus".
`claims to be - and is - `the first full-length study of Gothic to
be written from the perspective of Bakhtinian theory'
Romanticism 1.2
`Howard's learned and illuminating discussion of the German
influences on The Monk and its relationship to eighteenth-century
writings on the sublime and picturesque is presented as an analysis
of the discursive practices which shape its textual dialogism ...
an insight of great value to Gothic studies.'
John Strachan, University of Sunderland, British Journal for
Eighteenth-century Studies, Vol. 19, Part 1, Spring 1996
`In textual analysis, Reading Gothic Fiction is detailed and
consistent.'
Timothy Morton, University of Colorado at Boulder, The Wordsworth
Circle, Aug '96
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