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The Gothic and the Rule of the Law, 1764-1820

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  • © 2007

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  1. Sue Chaplin

    1. Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Thresholds

    • Sue Chaplin
    Pages 1-18

  3. Fictions of Origin

    • Sue Chaplin
    Pages 19-36

  4. ‘Written in the Black Letter’: The Gothic and/in the Rule of Law

    • Sue Chaplin
    Pages 37-54

  5. Spectres of Law in The Castle of Otranto

    • Sue Chaplin
    Pages 55-65

  6. Clara Reeve and the Problem of Romance

    • Sue Chaplin
    Pages 66-83

  7. The Law’s Gothic Space: Sophia Lee’s The Recess

    • Sue Chaplin
    Pages 84-94

  8. A Maternal Tale Unfolds — Radcliffean Gothic

    • Sue Chaplin
    Pages 95-115

  9. A Supplement — Gaston de Blondeville

    • Sue Chaplin
    Pages 116-124

  10. Before the Law — Godwin’s Caleb Williams

    • Sue Chaplin
    Pages 125-142

  11. In Excess — Godwin’s St Leon and Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer

    • Sue Chaplin
    Pages 143-164

  12. Conclusion: Frankenstein — Reproducing the Gothic

    • Sue Chaplin
    Pages 165-177

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 178-183
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This book is the first full-length theoretical and historical study of the relation between early Gothic fiction and an emerging modern rule of law. The work identifies not only a political and cultural, but also an ontological relation between what critics have conceptualized as 'Gothic' and the nature and function of modern juridical power.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

    Sue Chaplin

About the author

SUE CHAPLIN is Senior Lecturer in English at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, where she specialises in Romantic-era writing and Gothic fiction. She is the author of Law, Sensibility and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction (2004).

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