York Notes Companions Gothic Literature

Part One: Introduction

Part Two: A Cultural Overview

Part Three: Texts, Writers and Contexts

Eighteenth-century Gothic: Walpole, Radcliffe and Lewis

Romantic-era Gothic: Coleridge, Byron and Mary Shelley

Nineteenth-century Gothic: Emily Bronte, Poe, Collins and Stevenson

From the Fin de Siecle to Modern Gothic: Stoker, Wells, M.R. James and Lovecraft

Twentieth-century American Gothic: Faulkner, King, Rice and Brite

British Gothic in the Late Twentieth Century: Carter, Ballard, Mantel and Waters

Part Four: Critical Theories and Debates

Narrative Instability and the Gothic Narrator

Female Gothic

Gothic Bodies

Nation and Empire

Part Five: References and Resources

Timeline

Further Reading

Index

Sue Chaplin is a Senior Lecturer in English, and Course Leader for the BA English and History at Leeds Metropolitan University. She is also Executive Officer to the International Gothic Association, Commissioning Editor of the Romanticism Division of the online journal Literature Compass and member of the editorial board for Gothic Studies. She is the author of two monographs – The Gothic and the Rule of Law, 1764-1820 (Palgrave, 2007) and Law, Sensibility and the Sublime in Eighteenth-century Women’s Fiction (Ashgate, 2004) – and editor of the forthcoming Romanticism Handbook (Continuum).

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