Approaches to Teaching: Gothic Fiction - The British and American Traditions

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Approaches to Teaching: Gothic Fiction - The British and American Traditions, edited by Diane Long Hoeveler and Tamar Heller (The Modern Languages Association of America, New York, 2003), ISBN: 0873529073, xiv + 314pp., $19.75 pb.

In recent years there has been a considerable growth in scholarship on the Gothic and on supporting reference materials. There has also been a growth in single volume introductory guides to the form which have been crucial in supporting our pedagogic practice...

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