What characteristics of gothic fiction appear?
Christopher MacLachlan’s Introduction to the Penguin Classics’ edition should certainly be read. He appends a bibliography, Montague Summers’ The Gothic Quest. (Russell and Russell, 1964), devotes almost a quarter of the book (100 pages) to a biography of Lewis and the influence of his novel. Edward Wagenkhecht’s Cavalcade of the English Novel (Holt, Rinehart and Winston) has a short section on the novel. On line resources may be found by clicking here. Note that Literary Gothic devotes a full page to The Monk including literary criticism.
