Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I Family Matters
6. Chapter 1 Heroines in Flight: Narrating Invisibility and Maturity in Women’s Gothic Writing of the Romantic Period 15
7. Chapter 2 Madwomen and Attics 31
8. Chapter 3 Mothers and Others 46
9. Chapter 4 The Gothic Girl Child 60
10. Chapter 5 ‘A Woman’s Place’ 74
11. Part II Transgressions
12. Chapter 6 Wicked Women 91
13. Chapter 7 The Female Gothic Body 106
14. Chapter 8 Spectral Femininity 120
15. Chapter 9 Female Gothic and the Law 135
16. Chapter 10 Female Vampirism 150
17. Part III New Directions
18. Chapter 11 Queering the Female Gothic 169
19. Chapter 12 No Country for Old Women: Gender, Age and the Gothic 184
20. Chapter 13 Virtual Gothic Women 199
21. Chapter 14 Formations of Player Agency and Gender in Gothic Games 214
22. Notes on Contributors 228
23. Index 232