The Gothic: from Dracula to The Shining
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What's the Point of the Gothic Novels?
The debates we have now about a sa video nasties in the 19 eighties, t or the bad influence of games on children goes all the way back to the eighteenth century actually. People were particularly concerned, many commentators, that it was women who were reading these books. And that their imaginations were being inflamed in all kinds of dangerous sorts of ways,. That was the whole point of them. They were very kind of, you know, titillating nd exciting.
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