The gothic and the sublime

pp. 11-37

in: Andrew R. Smith, Gothic radicalism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2000

Abstract

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.