Historicising the Gothic Other
Historicising the Gothic Other

Summary/Abstract: The following review discusses the recent book by Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal (Manchester UP, 2016), which offers a historical perspective on gothic literary and cultural texts. In the book, Mulvey-Roberts examines how gothic fiction represents the bodies of the Other – the Catholic, the slave, the woman, the Jew, and so on – on which the history cannibalistically feeds itself; a meticulous historical research allows her to shed new light on both canonical as well as more marginal gothic texts. This review of- fers an overview and a brief comment on this significant addition to gothic studies.

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