"Bartleby" in the evolution of the Gothic tradition.

• Main Author: Goh, Evan Yu Fan.
• Other Authors: Terence Richard Dawson
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Language::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52216
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” was first published in 1853, nearly a century after Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, and sixty years after Brown’s Wieland. The Gothic Tradition, as it begun, was not received well by literary critics of the time. However, as more w...