Edward W.R. Pitcher. Recalling Fiction's Cultural Context: Early Gothic and Utopian Romance.(Book Review)

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Edward W.R. Pitcher. Recalling Fiction's Cultural Context: Early Gothic and Utopian Romance.

Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002. ix + 238 pp. $109.95.

THE TITLE OF THIS BOOK is misleading, since Edward Pitcher explores "fiction's cultural context" only in a very amorphous sense, and since it is not always evident how the works he discusses fall under the definition of "gothic and utopian romance." A more accurate description of Recalling Fiction's Cultural Context is provided by the author in the concluding sentence of his introduction, when he offers his work as a ...

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