The Coherence of Gothic Conventions

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First published in 1986, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions makes the case that the Gothic in English literature has been marked by a distinctive and highly influential set of ambitions about relations of meaning.

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First published in 1986, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions makes the case that the Gothic in English literature has been marked by a distinctive and highly influential set of ambitions about relations of meaning.

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Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. The Structure of Gothic Conventions 2. Language as Live Burial: Thomas de Quincey 3. Immediacy, Doubleness, and the Unspeakable: Wuthering Heights and Villette 4. The Character in the Veil: Imagery of the Surface in the Gothic Novel