The Failure of Gothic: Problems of Disjunction in an Eighteenth-Century Literary Form

'Napier's timely, stubborn scepticism will be especially welcome to serious students of the English novel, because her book promises to restore a sense of critical proportion to a discussion which has too often shrugged it off.' Chris Baldick, The Times Literary Supplement
'Napier communicates throughout in a clear, direct prose style, aided by a freedom from typographical error and, greatly easing comprehension, by the use of footnotes rather than endnotes.'Barry Roth, Ohio University, Notes and Queries
'Elizabeth Napier proves herself to be a sensitive and discriminating reader/writer ... she is fully persuasive and her book is an important contribution to the study of the literary aesthetics operative within Gothic fiction of the late eighteenth century'British Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies