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Introduction
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Chronology
Call for Contributors
1. Gothic Literature in the Eighteenth Century
Sarah Gray
Edmund Burke, from On the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
Horace Walpole, excerpt from The Castle of Otranto (1764)
Clara Reeve, excerpt from The Old English Baron (1778)
William Beckford, excerpt from Vathek (1786)
Mary Wollstonecraft, From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792)
Caleb Williams; or, Things As They Are (1794)
Anne Radcliffe, excerpt from The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
Matthew Lewis, excerpt from The Monk (1796)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Review of The Monk
Mary Shelley, excerpt from Frankenstein (1818)
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2. Victorian Gothic
Jack Clark
Jane Austen, excerpt from Northanger Abbey (1817)
Charlotte Brontë, excerpt from Jane Eyre (1847)
Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)
Oscar Wilde, excerpt from The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
Bram Stoker, excerpt from Dracula (1897)
3. No Man’s Land, Elder Gods and Monsters: The Modern Gothic from 1900-1932.
Katherine Hawkins
Edith Wharton, “Afterward” (1910)
Sigmund Freud, excerpt from The Uncanny (1919)
H.P. Lovecraft, "The Picture in the House" (1920)
Virginia Woolf, “A Haunted House” (1921)
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