Avril Horner is Professor of English at Kingston University, London

• Introduction - Avril Horner1. Translation in distress: Cultural misappropriation and the construction of the Gothic - Terry Hale2. European disruptions of the idealized woman: Matthew Lewis's The Monk and the Marquis de Sade's Le Nouvelle Justine - Angela Wright3. Diderot and Maturin: Enlightenment, automata and the theatre of terror - Victor Sage4. Verging on the Gothic: Melmoth's journey to France - Catherine Lanone5. Europhobia: the Catholic other in Horace Walpole and Charles Maturin - Robert Miles6. European Gothic and nineteenth-century Russian literature - Neil Cornwell7. The robbers and the police: British romantic drama and the Gothic treacheries of Coleridge's Remorse - Peter Mortensen8. Translating Mary Shelley's Valperga into English: Historical romance, biography or Gothic fiction - John Williams9. 'Hallelujah to your dying screams of torture': Representations of ritual violencein English and Spanish Romanticism - Joan Curbet10. Potocki's Gothic arabesque: Embedded narrative and the treatment of boundaries in The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (1797-1815) - Ahlam Alaki11. The Gothic crosses the Channel: Abjection and revelation in Le Fantôme de l'Opéra - Jerrold E. Hogle12. 'A detour of filthiness': French fiction and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood - Avril Horner

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