I. Charles Brockden Brown: conspiracy, enlightenment and the supernatural explained

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of illustrations viii
5. Prologue: The history of gothic fiction 1
6. 1. History and the gothic novel
7. I. What’s gothic about the gothic novel? 17
8. II. Reading gothic histories: Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto Patriotism, Wilkes and the gothic 27
9. 2. Female gothic and the secret terrors of sensibility
10. I. Radcliffe and the politics of female sensibility 48
11. II. Radcliffe and the politics of masculine sensibility 62
12. III. Gothic radicals: Wollstonecraft’s The Wrongs of Woman 70
13. 3. Revolution and libertinism in the gothic novel
14. I. Compositional politics of The Monk 81
15. II. Lewis and the French Revolutionary Wars 96
16. III. Publication and the politics of censorship 106
17. 4. Science, conspiracy and the gothic enlightenment
18. I. Charles Brockden Brown: conspiracy, enlightenment and the supernatural explained 121
19. II. Fictions of science in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Alchemy and modern science 141
20. 5. Vampires, credulity and reason
21. I. The 1730s vampire controversy 161
22. II. Romance vampires and the romantic poets 175
23. III. History, the vampire and Dracula 189
24. 6. Zombies and the occultation of slavery
25. I. Slavery and the zombie 205
26. II. Twentieth-century gothic and the zombies of modernity 218
27. III. The occultation of miscegenation and slavery in the zombie film 233
28. Select bibliography of gothic resources 245
29. Index 254