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  • Introduction: The Gothic in/and History

  • Edited by Angela Wright, University of Sheffield, Dale Townshend, Manchester Metropolitan University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Gothic
    Published online:
    16 July 2020
    Print publication:
    06 August 2020, pp 1-21

  • Summary

    Written by the editors, this essay provides an Introduction to all three volumes of The Cambridge History of the Gothic. It proceeds by casting a self-reflexive glance at the notion of ‘history’ as it is represented in Gothic writing itself, arguing that, since its inception in the eighteenth century, Gothic has always occupied a fraught and complex position in relation to the practice of formal and official historiography. Second, it provides an overview of the volumes to follow, foregrounding the ways in which the essays brought together here, more than simply offering a rigorous ‘history’ of the Gothic, are preoccupied with the ways in which the Gothic has responded to, and been inscribed within, some of the determining historical events of Western civilisation, from the Sacking of Rome in AD 410 to the twenty-first century.