I enjoyed the whole thread that spawned off this comment. Back in the 90s I took a literature course that did the reverse angle. With a gothic theme, we compared Frankenstein and Neuromancer. And in between, I believe we also sampled Sigmund Freud and E.A. Poe.
I think noir when I think about Neuromancer—the kinda-scumbag protagonist down on his luck, drawn not-wholly-willingly into a bigger plot and with various personal goals factoring in and intertwined with it; the prose style; the larger plot ultimately kinda coming to nothing (“forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown”), et c.
I’ll have to read it with gothic literature in mind, next time.
Look more to the environments and secondary characters instead of just the protagonist. The English gothic horror is strong in the Tessier-Ashpool clan and the whole orbital scene.
But as I recall, we also sought goth in other places and characters. The whole metaverse with AI running amok, and the Corto/Armitage character being almost a reverse Frankenstein's monster, for example.
