Alison Milbank is Associate Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Nottingham. She was John Rylands Research Fellow at the University of Manchester and after a temporary position at Cambridge, taught for five years at the University of Virginia. She has taught at Nottingham since 2004, and is also Priest Vicar and Canon Theologian at Southwell Minster. She has published widely on the Gothic, also publishes on Anglican ecclesiology and theology. Her publications include Daughters of the House: Modes of the Gothic in Victorian Fiction (1992) and Preaching Radical and Orthodox (co-edited with John Hughes and Arabella Milbank; 2017).

• Introduction Part I: Whig Gothic in the Long Reformation 1: Cain's Castles: The Emergence of Protestant Gothic in the Reformation 2: Bare, Ruined Choirs: Gothic Nostalgia and the Reformation 3: The Secret of Divine Providence: Whig Gothic and the Grotesque in Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, and Matthew Lewis 4: Beyond the Awful Veil: Melancholic Theology and the In-between in Ann Radcliffe 5: Paradoxes of the Heart: Religious Anthropology in Charles Brockden Brown 6: Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley's Dantesque Theology of Creation Part II: Duality and Mediation in Scottish Gothic 7: Truly Two: Calvinist Anthropology and the Double from Christopher Marlowe to John Buchan 8: Black books and Brownies: Narrating the Reformation in Walter Scott and James Hogg Part III: The Ambivalence of Blood in Irish Gothic 9: Mimetic Contagion: Charles Maturin and the Theology of Sacrifice 10: In a Glass Darkly? Narrating Death and the Afterlife in Sheridan Le Fanu 11: Finding a Via Media: Bram Stoker and Mediation Part IV: Later Gothic: Re-enchanting the Material 12: Supernatural Naturalism in Margaret Oliphant, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë 13: Holy Terrors: The Mystical Gothic of Arthur Machen, Evelyn Underhill, and Charles Williams 14: Ecclesiastical Gothic: J. Meade Falkner and M. R. James Epilogue Bibliography

Milbank's work is valuable not just in that it should prompt in the literary academy a chastised return to the Gothic with a more religiously attuned critical sense, but also in that she raises important questions about what happens to faith when it is shorn of its imagination, its instinct for the liminal and its arcane ritual, and made to conform to too much rational dissection, reasonable practice and 'scientific' moderation.

Alison Milbank is Associate Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Nottingham. She was John Rylands Research Fellow at the University of Manchester and after a temporary position at Cambridge, taught for five years at the University of Virginia. She has taught at Nottingham since 2004, and is also Priest Vicar and Canon Theologian at Southwell Minster. She has published widely on the Gothic, also publishes on Anglican ecclesiology and theology. Her publications include Daughters of the House: Modes of the Gothic in Victorian Fiction (1992) and Preaching Radical and Orthodox (co-edited with John Hughes and Arabella Milbank; 2017).

• Introduction Part I: Whig Gothic in the Long Reformation 1: Cain's Castles: The Emergence of Protestant Gothic in the Reformation 2: Bare, Ruined Choirs: Gothic Nostalgia and the Reformation 3: The Secret of Divine Providence: Whig Gothic and the Grotesque in Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, and Matthew Lewis 4: Beyond the Awful Veil: Melancholic Theology and the In-between in Ann Radcliffe 5: Paradoxes of the Heart: Religious Anthropology in Charles Brockden Brown 6: Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley's Dantesque Theology of Creation Part II: Duality and Mediation in Scottish Gothic 7: Truly Two: Calvinist Anthropology and the Double from Christopher Marlowe to John Buchan 8: Black books and Brownies: Narrating the Reformation in Walter Scott and James Hogg Part III: The Ambivalence of Blood in Irish Gothic 9: Mimetic Contagion: Charles Maturin and the Theology of Sacrifice 10: In a Glass Darkly? Narrating Death and the Afterlife in Sheridan Le Fanu 11: Finding a Via Media: Bram Stoker and Mediation Part IV: Later Gothic: Re-enchanting the Material 12: Supernatural Naturalism in Margaret Oliphant, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë 13: Holy Terrors: The Mystical Gothic of Arthur Machen, Evelyn Underhill, and Charles Williams 14: Ecclesiastical Gothic: J. Meade Falkner and M. R. James Epilogue Bibliography

Milbank's work is valuable not just in that it should prompt in the literary academy a chastised return to the Gothic with a more religiously attuned critical sense, but also in that she raises important questions about what happens to faith when it is shorn of its imagination, its instinct for the liminal and its arcane ritual, and made to conform to too much rational dissection, reasonable practice and 'scientific' moderation.

Alison Milbank is Associate Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Nottingham. She was John Rylands Research Fellow at the University of Manchester and after a temporary position at Cambridge, taught for five years at the University of Virginia. She has taught at Nottingham since 2004, and is also Priest Vicar and Canon Theologian at Southwell Minster. She has published widely on the Gothic, also publishes on Anglican ecclesiology and theology. Her publications include Daughters of the House: Modes of the Gothic in Victorian Fiction (1992) and Preaching Radical and Orthodox (co-edited with John Hughes and Arabella Milbank; 2017).

• Introduction Part I: Whig Gothic in the Long Reformation 1: Cain's Castles: The Emergence of Protestant Gothic in the Reformation 2: Bare, Ruined Choirs: Gothic Nostalgia and the Reformation 3: The Secret of Divine Providence: Whig Gothic and the Grotesque in Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, and Matthew Lewis 4: Beyond the Awful Veil: Melancholic Theology and the In-between in Ann Radcliffe 5: Paradoxes of the Heart: Religious Anthropology in Charles Brockden Brown 6: Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley's Dantesque Theology of Creation Part II: Duality and Mediation in Scottish Gothic 7: Truly Two: Calvinist Anthropology and the Double from Christopher Marlowe to John Buchan 8: Black books and Brownies: Narrating the Reformation in Walter Scott and James Hogg Part III: The Ambivalence of Blood in Irish Gothic 9: Mimetic Contagion: Charles Maturin and the Theology of Sacrifice 10: In a Glass Darkly? Narrating Death and the Afterlife in Sheridan Le Fanu 11: Finding a Via Media: Bram Stoker and Mediation Part IV: Later Gothic: Re-enchanting the Material 12: Supernatural Naturalism in Margaret Oliphant, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë 13: Holy Terrors: The Mystical Gothic of Arthur Machen, Evelyn Underhill, and Charles Williams 14: Ecclesiastical Gothic: J. Meade Falkner and M. R. James Epilogue Bibliography

Milbank's work is valuable not just in that it should prompt in the literary academy a chastised return to the Gothic with a more religiously attuned critical sense, but also in that she raises important questions about what happens to faith when it is shorn of its imagination, its instinct for the liminal and its arcane ritual, and made to conform to too much rational dissection, reasonable practice and 'scientific' moderation.