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Beginning in the 1790s, North American readers developed an appetite for the gothic novel, as imported, reprinted, and pirated editions of British and European romances flooded the market alongside homegrown works. In Gothic Subjects, Siân Silyn Roberts accounts for the sudden and considerable appeal of the gothic during this period by contending that it prepared a culturally diverse American readership to think of itself as part of a transatlantic world through which goods, people, and informat

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Author

Sian Silyn Roberts; Siân Silyn Roberts

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812209839

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Literary Criticism

Updated

2026-03-25