(foucault asker) that clarified it for me - there's no "gothic literature" school of analysis, but there's Marxist analysis, Freudian analysis, and so on. thank you!
aside: i propose a gothic literature school of analysis. society is a large man that we all collectively together from the corpses of dead ideas, and so on.
no problem! also i was always really disappointed hobbes's leviathan wasn't a sea monster!