Abstract
"The Gothic" is a hybrid genre relying on a set of narrative conventions: the setting a dark and crumbling castle, its plots fuelled by motifs of pursuit and flight. With the publication of The Banished Man (1794), which included Avis au Lecteur, her manifesto on realistic writing, Charlotte Smith turned on the genre she had done much to popularize with her early romances. This article examines how Smith harnessed spaces and themes generally classified as "Gothic" to serve her novelistic project of writing the "real"—at a moment in history when authors searched for an appropriate mode to present a credible account of the socio-political horrors perpetrated in the Revolutionary Wars without having recourse to a conventional Gothic discourse and genre, which routinely centred on representations of monstrous humankind.
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