From: Criticism | Date: September 22, 1996| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1996 Wayne State University Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

In Art of Darkness, Anne Williams sets out to discover a "poetics" of Gothic, as her subtitle informs us -- a set of underlying principles associated not only with the literature conventionally grouped under the "Gothic" rubric but also with its Romantic cousins, though Williams herself resists family metaphors precisely because of their thematic relevance here. Delineating such a set of "Gothic" principles is itself a tall undertaking. As Eve Sedgwick remarks, "Gothic" has not been the most supple of terms. Most of the best recent criticism of Gothic literature, including much ...

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