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FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Brown, Jane K. and Marshall Brown. “Faust and the Gothic Novel.” In Interpreting Goethe'sFaustToday, edited by Jane K. Brown, Meredith Lee, and Thomas P. Saine, pp. 68-80. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1994.

Examines the preponderance of Gothic themes, stock characters, settings, and plot motifs in Goethe's Faust.

Cameron, Kenneth N. and Horst Frenz. “The Stage History of Shelley's The Cenci.” PMLA 60, no. 4 (December 1945): 1080-1105.

Disputes the common critical assessment of Shelley's play as a closet drama through an examination of its long stage history.

Clarke, George Elliott. “Racing Shelley, or Reading The Cenci as a Gothic Slave Narrative.” European Romantic Review 11, no. 2 (spring 2000): 168-85.

Maintains that Shelley drew on the conventions of the Gothic novel as well as those associated with the...

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1. Introduction
2. Representative Works
3. Criticism: Overviews
   1. Paul Ranger (essay date 1991)
4. Criticism: Sociopolitical Contexts
   1. Robert P. Reno (essay date October 1984)
   2. Paula R. Backscheider (essay date 1993)
   3. Diane Long Hoeveler (essay date summer 2000)
5. Criticism: Gothic Playwrights
   1. Willard Thorp (essay date June 1928)
   2. John Franceschina (essay date 1997)
   3. Michael Gamer (essay date winter 1999)
6. Further Reading
7. Copyright

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