The Gothic and the Rule of Law

Forthcoming in May is Susan Chaplin's The Gothic and the Rule of Law, 1764-1820 from Palgrave Macmillan. It will include discussions of The Castle of Otranto, Caleb Williams, and Frankenstein, among other novels. Professor Chaplin is the author of Law, Sensibility, and the Sublime in Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction: Speaking of Dread (Ashgate Publishing, 2004).