Description

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This revised new edition of The Handbook of the Gothic contains over one hundred entries on Gothic writers, themes, terms, concepts, contexts and locations, featuring new entries on writers including Stephen King and Wilkie Collins, new genres and a new Preface which situates the handbook within current studies of the Gothic.

About the Author

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MARIE MULVEY-ROBERTS is Reader in Literary Studies at the English Department of the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. She is the editor of the journal Women's Writing and author of Gothic Immortals: The Fiction of the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross (1990). She has co-edited Secret Texts: The Literature of Secret Societies (1995) and Gothic Fiction, Rare Printed Works from the Sadleir-Black Collection (2002-3). Recently she has edited Writing for their Lives: Death Row USA (2007) and The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton (2008).