Love, Mystery and Misery Feeling in Gothic Fiction

As pseudo-historical fantasy, Gothic fiction embodies contemporary neuroses, especially sexual fears and repressions, which run right through it and are basic to its conventions. In this classic study, Howells traces the effort to articulate these disconcerting emotions in symbol, incident, landscape and architecture through close analysis of a range of works including The Monk, Melmoth the Wanderer, the Minerva Press novelists, Northanger Abbey and Jane Eyre.Howells, Cora is the author of 'Love, Mystery and Misery Feeling in Gothic Fiction', published 2005 under ISBN 9780826478887 and ISBN 0826478883.