Gothic Chapbooks and the Urban Reader
@article{Hoeveler2010GothicCA, title={Gothic Chapbooks and the Urban Reader}, author={Diane Long Hoeveler}, journal={The Wordsworth Circle}, year={2010}, volume={41}, pages={155 - 158} }
Gothic bluebooks and chapbooks have been the stepchild of gothic scholarship, frequently ignored because of their derivative nature and their lack of artistic sophistication, depth, or significance (Varma; Frank; Watt). Montague Summers claims that they were the reading material of "schoolboys, prentices, servant-girls, by the whole of that vast population which longed to be in the fashion, to steep themselves in the Gothic Romance." They are commonly referred to as "the remainder trade" or…
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