The Style of the Gothic Novel is a study focused on the beginnings of English Gothic novel and also on some American Gothic writings. This type of novel is individualized through a certain set of stylistic features that appear applied in writings according to the sensibility of the author and the impact of the epoch respectively. Through various stylistic devices metaphor, hyperbole, simile, epithets, syntactic rhythm (interrupted structure echoing sudden movements of consciousness), etc the tension... Mehr