Reading Gothic Fiction

This is the first full-length study of Gothic to be written from the perspective of Bakhtinian theory. Through discussions of works like Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho , Matthew Lewis's The Monk , Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey , and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , Howard presents a new view of Gothic which enables her to intervene in feminist discussions of the genre, which have claimed it as specifically female.