"The connections between the law and the Gothic run both ways: not only do Gothic novels portray courts of law, but seminal legal texts also invoke the Gothic," states Marshall (English, U. of
Massachusetts) in her introduction. She sets the literary and legal context in a survey of English and American gothic fiction, then looks closely at four novels: Caleb Williams by William
Godwin; Frankenstein (Mary Shelley); Edgar Huntly (Charles Brockden Brown); and The Bondswoman's Narrative (Hannah Crafts). Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
