Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of illustrations vii
4. Notes on contributors ix
5. Acknowledgements xii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 Translation in distress 17
8. 2 European disruptions of the idealized woman 39
9. 3 Diderot and Maturin 55
10. 4 Verging on the Gothic 71
11. 5 Europhobia 84
12. 6 European Gothic and nineteenth-century Russian literature 104
13. 7 The robbers and the police 128
14. 8 Translating Mary Shelley’s Valperga into English 147
15. 9 ‘Hallelujah to your dying screams of torture’ 161
16. 10 Potocki’s Gothic Arabesque 183
17. 11 The Gothic crosses the Channel 204
18. 12 ‘A detour of filthiness’ 230
19. Index 252