Abstract
This essay argues that Mary Pix's The Inhumane Cardinal (1696) should be read as a precursor to Gothic fiction, providing a missing link between, on the one hand, medieval and Renaissance romances and, on the other, the late eighteenth-century revival of romance writing in the form of the Gothic novel. The generic self-fashioning of Pix's novel plays out mostly through a focus on the power of narrative, which the novel presents as a means of active manipulation, thus serving as a warning to potential readers not to get fully drawn into the invented worlds of fiction.
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