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The only account of the Gothic that describes the entire history of the term, presenting it in all its richly complex and perversely contradictory glory.
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Professor Nick Groom is Chair in English at the University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, and Director of ECLIPSE: the Exeter Centre for Literatures of Identity, Place, and Sustainability. He has published widely for both academic and popular readerships, and is the author and editor of many books, most recently The Forger's Shadow (2002), Thomas Chatterton: Selected Poetry (2003), and The Union Jack (2006).
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- PublisherOUP Oxford
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0199586799
- ISBN 13 9780199586790
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages163
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