Bøker av Sue Chaplin

This study offers fresh insight into the culture and politics of the 18th century. It presents highly original readings of well known and lesser known literary texts that interrogate from fresh perspectives the complex theoretical issues pertaining to gender.

This book is the first full-length theoretical and historical study of the relation between early Gothic fiction and an emerging modern rule of law. The work identifies not only a political and cultural, but also an ontological relation between what critics have conceptualized as 'Gothic' and the nature and function of modern juridical power.