Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Rounds of Air 14
7. 2. “Other Air”: Boyle’s Spring, Milton’s Fall, and the Making of Literary Atmosphere 36
8. 3. “Discontented Air”; or, The Rape of the Lock 61
9. 4. Novel Atmographies: Eighteenth-Century Weather Writing and the Atmospheres of Robinson Crusoe 92
10. 5. Spectral Currencies and the Air of Reality in A Journal of the Plague Year 111
11. 6. The Dissipation of Tom Jones 130
12. 7. Glanvill’s Ghost, Cold Sociability, and “the Cure of Arabella’s Mind” 161
13. 8. In Factitious Airs: Radcliffe’s Priestley 190
14. 9. Priestley’s Radcliffe and the Experimental Gothic 219
15. Notes 251
16. Index 289