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Gothic literature was at its height of popularity during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century period we now refer to as “Romantic.” As Michael Gamer has recently shown, the relationship between these two bodies of literature is “one not simply of passive influence but punctuated by simultaneous appropriation and critique.”1 Relationships within these two movements are similarly complex, in part because not every important change in Gothic studies over the last forty years can be attributed to the influence of Romantic studies. More generally, critical and theoretical developments in English studies, including feminist, psychoanalytic, and poststructuralist approaches, have also had an impact.
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Fitzgerald, L. (2006). Romantic Gothic. In: Powell, A., Smith, A. (eds) Teaching the Gothic. Teaching the New English. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625358_4
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