Volume 1. | General introduction. | |
1. | Some side lights on the theory of the Gothic romance / Arthur L. Cooke | p.19 |
2. | The useful myth of gothic ancestry / Mark Madoff | p.27 |
3. | Night thoughts on the gothic novel / Lowry Nelson, Jr | p.38 |
4. | Narrative enclosure as textual ruin: an archaeology of gothic consciousness / Jan B. Gordon | p.55 |
5. | Deserts, ruins and troubled waters: female dreams in fiction and the development of the gothic novel / Margaret Anne Doody | p.83 |
6. | Female gothic / Ellen Moers | p.123 |
7. | The restless labyrinth: cryptonomy in the gothic novel / Margaret Anne Doody | p.145 |
8. | A philosophical view of the gothic novel / Marshall Brown | p.167 |
9. | Abjection, nationalism and the gothic / Robert Miles | p.192 |
10. | Fact and fancy in the gothic novel / George E. Haggerty | p.212 |
11. | The gothic way of death in english fiction 1790-1820 / Coral Ann Howells | p.223 |
12. | Imperial gothic: atavism and the occult in the british adventure novel, 1880-1914 / Patrick Brantlinger | p.233 |
13. | American female gothic / Elaine Showalter | p.260 |
14. | Gothic mirrors and feminine identity / Claire Kahane | p.276 |
15. | Postcolonial gothic: ruth prawer jhabvala and the sobhraj case / Judie Newman | p.293 |
16. | Signs of evil: bataille, baudrillard and postmodern gothic / Fred Botting | p.307 |
17. | Opening up / Carol Clover | p.326 |
Volume 2. | Eighteenth-century Gothic: radcliffe, reader, writer, romancer. | |
18. | The wanton muse: politics and gender in Gothic theory / Harriet Guest | p.11 |
19. | An embarrassing subject: use value and exchange value in early gothic characterization / Andrea Henderson | p.28 |
20. | Gothic sublimity / David B. Morris | p.50 |
21. | Hysteria, phantasy and the family romance: Ann Radcliffe's rommance of the forest / Elisabeth Bronfen | p.69 |
22. | The spectralization of the other in the mysteries of udolpho / Terry Castle | p.80 |
23. | Ann Radcliffe and the conservative gothic / David Durant | p.105 |
24. | Ideology and the mysteries of udolpho / Mary Poovey | p.116 |
25. | Like a heroine / E. J. Clery | p.137 |
26. | The character in the veil: imagery of the surface in the gothic novel / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick | p.153 |
27. | The mysteries of udolpho and clermont: the radcliffean encroachment on the art of regina maria roche / Natalie Schroeder | p.178 |
28. | Virtue and terror: the monk / Peter Brooks | p.191 |
29. | Social hierarchy in Matthew Lewis's the monk / Daniel P. Watkins | p.204 |
30. | Authors in effect: lewis, scott, anf the gothic drama / Michael Gamer | p.214 |
31. | Power in the darkness: heterotopias, literature and gothic labyrinths / Fred Botting | p.243 |
32. | Gothic fiction and the french revolution / Ronald Paulson | p.269 |
33. | Frankenstein as neo-gothic: from the ghost of the counterfeit to the monster of abjection / Jerrold E. Hogle | p.289 |
34. | Promethean narrative: overdetermined form in Shelley's gothic fiction / Tilottama Raian | p.318 |
Volume 3. | Nineteenth-century Gothic: at home with the vampire | |
35. | I shall be with you on your wedding-night: Lacan and the uncanny / Mladen Dolar | p.12 |
36. | Melmoth the wanderer: gothic on gothic / David Eggenschwiler | p.31 |
37. | Hieroglyphics in fire:melmoth the wanderer / Kathleen Fowler | p.45 |
38. | That kingdom of gloom: Charlotte Bronte, the annuals, and the gothic / Christine Alexander | p.62 |
39. | Heathcliff as vampire / James Twitchell | p.80 |
40. | The fall of the house of clennam: gothic conventions in Little Dorrit / David Jarrett | p.89 |
41. | The precautions of nervous people are infectious: sheridan Le Fanu's symptomatic gothic / Helen Stoddart | p.97 |
42. | Catmilla: the arts of repression / William Veeder | p.117 |
43. | Death, femininity and identification: a recourse to Ligeia / David Punter | p.142 |
44. | Tranced griefs: Melville's Pierre and the origins of the gothic / Robert Mils | p.158 |
45. | The haunted closet: Henry Jame's queer spectrality / John Fletcher | p.178 |
46. | The gothic and the 'otherings' of ascendant culture: the original Phantom of the Opera / Jerrold E. Hogle | p.205 |
47. | Psychopathia sexualis: Stevenson's Strange case / Stephen Heath | p.226 |
48. | The inner chambers of all nameless sin: the beetle, gothic female sexuality, and oriental barbarism / Kelly Hurley | p.241 |
49. | Kiss me with those red lips: gender and inversion in Bram Stoker's Dracula / Christopher Craft | p.259 |
50. | Terrors of the night: Dracula and 'degeneration' in the late nineteenth century / Daniel Pick | p.287 |
51. | Purity and danger: Dracula, the urban gothic, and the late victorian degeneracy crisis / Kathleen L. Spencer | p.304 |
52. | Dracula Stoker's response to the new woman / Carol A. Senf | p.331 |
Volume 4. | Twentieth-century Gothic: our monsters, our pets | |
53. | Vampires, breast-feeding, and anxiety / Joan Copjec | p.12 |
54. | Vampiric typewriting: Dracula and its media / Jennifer Wicke | p.30 |
55. | Travles in Romania: myths of origins, myths of blood / David Glover | p.54 |
56. | The phantoms of Drood and Rebecca: the uncanny reencountered through Abraham and Torok's 'cryptonymy' / Allan Lloyd Smith | p.70 |
57. | Primal scenes and the female gothic: Rebecca and Gaslight / John Fletcher | p.94 |
58. | Agriculture, body sculpture, gothic culture: gothic parody in Gibbons, Atwood and Weldon / Avril Horner, Sue Zlosnik | p.122 |
59. | The imperial mouth: imperialism, the gothic and science fiction / Judith Wilt | p.134 |
60. | Grimaces of the real, or when the phallus appears / Slavoj Zizek | p.147 |
61. | On stephen King's phallus; or, the postmodern gothic / Steven Bruhm | p.170 |
62. | Horrality: the textuality of contemporary horror films / Philip Brophy | p.191 |
63. | Her body, himself: gender in the slasher film / Carol J. Clover | p.201 |
64. | Horror and the monstroud-feminine: an imaginary abjection / Barbara Creed | p.244 |
65. | Undoing feminism: from the preoedipal to postfeminism in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles / Janice Doane, Devon Hodges | p.273 |
66. | Heart lands: contemporary Scottish gothic / David Punter | p.291 |
67. | The politics of petrifaction: culture, religion, history in the fiction of lain banks and John Banville / Victor Sage | p.312 |
68. | Queer gothic: Angela Carter and the lost marratives of sexual subversion / Patricia Duncker | p.330 |
69. | Skinflick: posthuman gender in Jonathan Demme's the silence of the lambs / Judith Halberstam | p.345 |