Table of Contents:
  • Patriarchal narratives in the work of Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, and Sophia Lee
  • The aesthetic of the sublime in the work of Matthew Lewis, Charlotte Dacre and Charles Maturin
  • Rethinking the sublime in the novels of Ann Radcliffe
  • From the sublime to the uncanny : Godwin and Wollstonecraft
  • Uncanny monsters in the work of Mary Shelley, John Polidori, and James Malcolm Rymer
  • Uncanny sensibility in the Brontës
  • The "unhomely" nation of Gothic narratives : Charlotte Smith, Charles Brockden Brown, and Matthew Lewis
  • Feminist, postmodern, postcolonial: Margaret Atwood and Ann-Marie Macdonald respond to the Gothic
  • Coda : criticism of the Gothic.