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Sound and Thorough Introduction I came to this book as part of my research for teaching Dracula to A-level students, and have found it to be an extremely useful text to have beside me while reading that and other Gothic novels. The other reviewer of this novel (who sadly has not left their name, which is unfortunate because their thoughts are eminently sensible and insightful), observes correctly that Botting is not preoccupied with close textual analysis, but with general trends in Gothic from its inception to the end of the... more info
The key is patience I bought this book knowing that I'd need some sort of critical analysis for a gothic literature module of my degree course. I bought it on a hunch and by reading the short yet enticingly positive 'blurb'. On first reading I simply lost a lot of the information due to the excess amounts of difficult terminology. Whilst being an introductory text to the gothic as a genre it definitely does assume a prior knowledge to some elements of history and literature in general. However, as my course studies... more info
