gined unity of self, home or society, hauntings that suggest loss or guilt or threat. Generations are subject to the crossing of temporal lines: an ancestor's crime threatens a family's status; …

Jul 17, 2021 · The topographies of old and disorderly castle ruins, dissolving family mansions, dark and dank dungeons, hidden corridors and wild and hostile naturescapes become …

Gothic texts are not good in moral, aesthetic or social terms. Their concern is with vice: protagonists are selfish or evil; adven tures involve decadence or crime. Their effects, …