The Gothic and the Rule of Law, 1764–1820

1. Introduction: Thresholds
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2. Fictions of Origin
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3. ‘Written in the Black Letter’: The Gothic and/in the Rule of Law
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4. Spectres of Law in The Castle of Otranto
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5. Clara Reeve and the Problem of Romance
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6. The Law’s Gothic Space: Sophia Lee’s The Recess

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7. A Maternal Tale Unfolds — Radcliffean Gothic
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8. A Supplement — Gaston de Blondeville
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9. Before the Law — Godwin’s Caleb Williams
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10. In Excess — Godwin’s St Leon and Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer
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11. Conclusion: Frankenstein — Reproducing the Gothic
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Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Fiction, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature