Gothic Fiction

ANGELA WRIGHT is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. She has published numerous articles on the reception of Gothic fiction during the Romantic era in Britain, and women's Gothic writing.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction'Terrorist Novel Writing': The Contemporary Reception of GothicTerror and Horror: Gothic Struggles'Our hearths, our sepulchres': The Gothic and the French Revolution''The sanctuary is prophaned': Religion, Nationalism and the Gothic'This narrative resembles a delirious dream': Psychoanalytical Readings of the Gothic'It is not ours to make election for ourselves': Gender and the GothicConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.

'...for those who want to deepen their appreciation of the Gothic novel Wright is an articulate and intelligent guide to the critical minefield, digging up the most fascinating and representative texts and marshalling their arguments in a way that makes them accessible to the lay readers, with plentiful insights into the nature of supernatural fiction and its appeal.' - Peter Tennant, Black Static '...the selection and organisation of an impressively wide and relevant range of sources ... and the critical commentaries that accompany them mark this out as an invaluable aid to researching and teaching the Gothic.' - Sue Chaplin, BARS Bulletin