...observed, an attempt to maintain a sense of family respectability, the twentieth-century keepers of the house of fiction--and here she makes special note of the work of F. R. Leavis--treated the Gothic as the "black sheep" of the family, an illegitimate and renegade cousin, pandering cheap and distressingly profitable thrills. As a result, when Gothic literature did receive critical attention, it was generally held to be an outmoded embarrassment, a form that occupied the lowest wrung of the critical ladder. Stoker's reputation as a man of meager output--he is still chiefly regarded as a writer of one work, and a suspect one at that--is the second factor that has argued against a more sophisticated recognition of his accomplishment.

When compared to Leavis's esteemed realism, Stoker's fiction and Gothic...

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