On the Re-Mediation of Gothic Dramas: The Gothic Stage and The Gothic Trade

A survey of publishing and the book trade in the Romantic period confirms that the forms of the textual transit were, indeed, numerous and diverse – figurative and actual webs and layers of intermediations. A comparative analysis may be expedient to prove the existence of a continuum in eighteenth-century textual practices as well as to broaden our perception of the stage appropriations of the Gothic.