Gothic Britain

Gothic Britain will be relevant to undergraduates of all levels, to students exploring Gothic and regional studies and to academics conducting research in the fields of national Gothic, regional Gothic and popular fictions from the early nineteenth century to the present.William Hughes is Professor of Medical Humanities and Gothic Fiction at Bath Spa University, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and the editor of the peer-reviewed journal Gothic Studies. Ruth Heholt is Senior Lecturer in English at Falmouth University, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and the editor of the peer-reviewed journal Revenant.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: William Hughes, ‘The Uncanny Space of Regionality: Gothic Beyond the Metropolis’Part One: Re-imagined Gothic Landscapes: Folklore, Nostalgia and HistoryChapter One: Catherine Spooner, ‘“Dark, and cold, and rugged is the North”: Regionalism, Folklore and Elizabeth Gaskell’s “Northern” Gothic’Chapter Two:Chloe Buckley, ‘Jeremy Dyson’s The Haunted Book (2012), the Gothic Child and the West Yorkshire Moors’Chapter Three: Richard Storer, ‘“Spook Business”: Hall Caine and the Moment of Manx Gothic’Chapter Four:Gioia Angelletti, ‘“All those ancient stories that had their dark souls located in woods”: Rural Gothic, Scottish Folklore and Postmodern Conundrums in James Robertson’s The Testament of Gideon Mack’Part Two: Unnatural Gothic SpacesChapter Five: Timothy Jones, ‘Entering the Darkness: Robert Aickman and the Regions’Chapter Six: Minna Vuohelainen, ‘University Gothic 1880-1910’Chapter Seven: Holly-Gale Millette, ‘Vampiristic Museums and Library Gothic’Part Three: Border Crossings and the Threat of InvasionChapter Eight: Jamil Mustafa, ‘Lifting the Veil: Allegory, Ambivalence and the (Scottish) Gothic in Walter Scott’s Union Fiction’Chapter Nine: Ben Richardson, ‘Cosmopolis Fever: Regionalism and Immunity in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (1826)’Chaper Ten: Ruth Heholt, ‘The Hammer House of Cornish Horror: The Inversion of Imperial Gothic in The Plague of the Zombies and The Reptile’Chapter Eleven: Sara Ilott, ‘Black Immigrant/White Cliffs: Dover Gothic and the Borders of Britishness’BibliographyIndex

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