The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790-1860

By Bridget M Marshall

Tracing the use of legal themes in the gothic novel, Bridget M. Marshall shows novelists like William Godwin, Mary Shelley, Charles Brockden Brown, and Hannah Crafts questioning the foundations of the Anglo-American justice system. Often invoking actual laws like the Black Act in England or the Fugitive Slave Act in America, gothic novels connect the genre's fantastic horrors with much more shocking examples of terror and injustice like American slavery.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113825004X
• ISBN13: 9781138250048
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"