Gothic & gender: an introduction

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 Brontes͡

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.