Gothic and Gender

Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1 Patriarchal Narratives in the Work of Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, and Sophia Lee. 2 The Aesthetic of the Sublime in the Work of Matthew Lewis, Charlotte Dacre, and Charles Maturin. 3 Rethinking the Sublime in the Novels of Ann Radcliffe. 4 From the Sublime to the Uncanny: Godwin and Wollstonecraft. 5 Uncanny Monsters in the Work of Mary Shelley, John Polidori, and James Malcolm Rymer. 6 Confronting the Uncanny in the Bront s. 7 The Unhomely Nation of Gothic Narratives: Charlotte Smith, Charles Brockden Brown, and Matthew Lewis. 8 Feminist, Postmodern, Postcolonial: Margaret Atwood and Ann Marie Macdonald Respond to the Gothic. Coda: Criticism of the Gothic. Notes. Bibliography. Index

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