Clara Reeve and Poetics of the "Gothic" Novel
We consider a novel Clara Reeve, «The Old English Baron», one of the most striking patterns in popular English literature of the last third of the XVIII century «Gothic» novel. Being not only a writer but also the theoretician of «Gothic» genre, Clara Reeve, undertook a kind of literary experiment that aims to create a kind of genre fusion, connecting features of the ancient romance (romance), a novel of modern (novel) and thus has its own artistic characteristics. Features of the poetics of the novel Clara Reeve analyzed in the context of literary and aesthetic debates era.