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(2000) Gothic radicalism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

The gothic and the sublime

Andrew R. Smith

pp. 11-37

Although I take issue with Morris's claims that the Gothic sublime is little more than a repressed version of the uncanny, I do acknowledge that his identification of an inherent instability within the Gothic sublime is a useful starting-point for our analysis. This idea of instability can also be extended to accounts of the Romantic sublime; an analysis of which enables us to bring together a Gothic discourse and certain Romantic philosophies.

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230598706_2

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Smith, A. R. (2000). The gothic and the sublime, in Gothic radicalism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 11-37.

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