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A typical Gothic scene: a young girl sits alone in a darkened room lit only by a guttering candle, her fearful gaze directed not at the text she has been reading, but over her shoulder. It is as if the very act of reading itself can raise a spectre from the past.
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Wallace, D. (2013). The Gothic Reader: History, Fear and Trembling. In: Mitchell, K., Parsons, N. (eds) Reading Historical Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291547_9
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