English Gothic, The

Spector, Robert Donald. The English Gothic: A Bibliographic Guide to Writers from Horace Walpole to Mary Shelley. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1984.

An impressively careful piece of work. Covers the definitions of "gothic," and then continues with a discussion of the contribution of the major writers in the field. Less a bibliographic guide than a research guide, directed more toward advanced students than scholars. Excellent historical breadth, making this a useful reference for historicizing the theme of the human/machine interface and locating it within a tradition of other confrontations between human and Other. (TW, 13/01/95)