Gothic Reflections

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Garrett then shows how the great 19th-century monster stories "Frankenstein", "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Dracula" self-consciously link the extremity and isolation of their deviant figures with the social groups they confront. These narratives, he argues, move from a Romantic concern with individual creation and responsibility to a Victorian affirmation of social solidarity that also reveals its dependence on the binding force of exclusionary violence. The final section of the book extends its investigation of Gothic reflections on narrative force into the more realistic social and psychological fiction of Dickens, Eliot and James.