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FRED BOTTING (ESSAY DATE 1996)

SOURCE: Botting, Fred. “Romantic Transformations.” In Gothic, pp. 91-112. London: Routledge, 1996.

In the following essay, Botting examines the genesis and role of the Gothic within the Romantic literary tradition, noting especially how the focus of the Gothic became internal in nature, rather than external.

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1. Introduction
2. Representative Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. John Aikin And Anna Laetitia (Aikin) Barbauld (Essay Date 1773)
   2. Mrs. Eliza Parsons (Novel Date 1793)
   3. Percy Bysshe Shelley (Story Date C. 1814)
   4. Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Novella Date 1826)
4. Overviews
   1. Edith Birkhead (Essay Date 1921)
   2. Fred Botting (Essay Date 1996)
   3. John Paul Riquelme (Essay Date Fall 2000)
5. Origins Of The Gothic
   1. Montague Summers (Essay Date 1938)
6. American Gothic
   1. Louis S. Gross (Essay Date 1989)
   2. Eric Savoy (Essay Date 1998)
7. European Gothic
   1. Ronald Paulson (Essay Date Autumn 1981)
   2. Alison Milbank (Essay Date 1994)
   3. Deidre Lynch (Essay Date Spring 2001)
8. Further Reading

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