
History of Gothic Fiction
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of illustrations
- Prologue: The history of gothic fiction
- On the pleasure derived from objects of terror
- Gothic and history
- 1. History and the gothic novel
- I. What's gothic about the gothic novel?
- Questions of form: the novel and the romance
- Questions of history: Goths and the age of enlightenment
- Reading history and the gothic constitution
- II. Reading gothic histories: Walpole's The Castle of Otranto
- Patriotism, Wilkes and the gothic
- 2. Female gothic and the secret terrors of sensibility
- I. Radcliffe and the politics of female sensibility
- Radcliffe and gothic masculinity: banditti and tyrants
- II. Radcliffe and the politics of masculine sensibility
- The 'supernatural explained' and the politics of gothic form
- III. Gothic radicals: Wollstonecraft's The Wrongs of Woman
- 3. Revolution and libertinism in the gothic novel
- I. Compositional politics of The Monk
- Libertine writing and the revolutionary enlightenment
- II. Lewis and the French Revolutionary Wars
- Lewis and the Terror
- III. Publication and the politics of censorship
- The Monk: criticism and censorship
- 4. Science, conspiracy and the gothic enlightenment
- I. Charles Brockden Brown: conspiracy, enlightenment and the supernatural explained
- A 'single family' and 'the condition of a nation'
- Superstition and madness, reason and wonder
- Gothic revolutionaries and the secret enlightenment
- Conspiracy and enlightenment in Carwin's 'memoirs'
- II. Fictions of science in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- Alchemy and modern science
- Secrecy and subversion
- 5. Vampires, credulity and reason
- I. The 1730s vampire controversy
- Walpole, the new commercial society and the excise vampire
- Antiquarian vampires and the birth of folklore
- II. Romance vampires and the romantic poets
- Byron's The Giaour (1813): the vampire as modern tyrant
- John William Polidori, The Vampyre and Byron
- Vampires and the science of folklore
- III. History, the vampire and Dracula
- Modernity and atavism in the vampire
- 6. Zombies and the occultation of slavery
- Answering the question 'What is a zombie?'
- I. Slavery and the zombie
- Rebel slaves and the devil-king Zombi
- Lafcadio Hearn's zombie stories: history as spectre
- II. Twentieth-century gothic and the zombies of modernity
- Modern slavery in Seabrook's The Magic Island
- Gothic hybrids and the white zombies
- III. The occultation of miscegenation and slavery in the zombie film
- Select bibliography of gothic resources
- Index
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