Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1 Gothic and Romantic: An Historical Overview 1
4. Part I Gothic Modes and Forms
5. 2 Graveyard Writing and the Rise of the Gothic 37
6. 3 Gothic Romance 55
7. 4 The Gothic Stage: Visions of Instability, Performances of Anxiety 73
8. 5 Gothic Poetry and First-Generation Romanticism 95
9. 6 Gothic and Second-Generation Romanticism: Lord Byron, P. B. Shelley, John Polidori and Mary Shelley 112
10. 7 Political Gothic Fiction 129
11. 8 Shorter Gothic Fictions: Ballads and Chapbooks, Tales and Fragments 147
12. 9 Oriental Gothic 167
13. 10 Gothic Parody 185
14. Part II National and International Borders
15. 11 Gothic Borders: Scotland, Ireland and Wales 207
16. 12 Gothic Travels 224
17. 13 The Romantic and the Gothic in Europe: The Elementary Spirits in France and Germany as a Vehicle for the Transmission and Development of the Fantastique, 1772–1835 247
18. 14 American Gothic Passages 267
19. PART III Reading the Romantic Gothic
20. 15 Gothic and the Language of Terror 289
21. 16 Gothic Science 306
22. 17 Gender and Sexuality in Gothic Romanticism 322
23. 18 Gothic Forms of Time: Architecture, Romanticism, Medievalism 339
24. 19 Gothic Theology 361
25. Notes on Contributors 377
26. Index 383