![]() ![]() ![]() One of them is the way the Gothic works is to put a kind of delicious flesh on the bones of our darkest and most nebulous impulses and fears. You said in your Aeon essay that the Gothic is an irresistible space for lots of readers. I think the Gothic is a way of dealing with that. The idea of sin and transgression and something out there, a darkness, had been very much part of my formative years. I was bought up in a very strict religious background. So, my PhD became about the Gothic, and I began to study it and realise I was writing in a gothic tradition and I started to embrace it and to love it. But once it’s been suggested to you you write in a certain way, you can’t help but become self-aware. I thought the Gothic was rather absurd stories of girls in night gowns running away from villains. I was surprised to discover that I was considered to be writing in the Gothic tradition with my first book. Foreign Policy & International Relations. ![]()
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