Gothic Writers

DOUGLASS H. THOMSON is Associate Professor of English at Georgia Southern University. He is the author of essays on English Romanticism and the novel.JACK G. VOLLER is Associate Professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. His publications include The Supernatural Sublime: The Metaphysics of Terror in Anglo-American Romanticism (1994), along with articles on Poe, William Gibson, and funerary semiotics.FREDERICK S. FRANK is Professor Emeritus of English at Allegheny College. He is the coeditor of The Poe Encyclopedia (1997) and the author of Through the Pale Door: A Guide to and through the American Gothic (1990), both available from Greenwood Press.

• PrefaceIntroductionDr. John Aikin and Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld by Douglass H. ThomsonWilliam Harrison Ainsworth by Jack G. VollerUeda Akinari by Frederick S. FrankGertrude Atherton by Jack G. VollerMargaret Atwood by Carol DavisonJane Austen and the Northanger Novelists (Lawrence Flammenberg,Carl Grosse, Francis Lathom, Eliza Parsons, Regina Maria Roche, Eleanor Sleath) by Douglass H. Thomson and Frederick S. FrankFrançois Thomas Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud by Frederick S. FrankWilliam Beckford by Jack G. VollerAmbrose Gwinett Bierce by Douglass H. ThomsonCharlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë by Douglass H. ThomsomEdward Bulwer-Lytton by Marie Mulvey-RobertsWilkie Collins by Frederick S. FrankCharlotte Darce by Douglass H. ThomsonCharles Dickens by Douglass H. ThomsonGuillaume Ducray Duminil by Frederick S. FrankMary Wilkins Freeman by Jack G. VollerWilliam Godwin by Douglass H. ThomsonGothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Short Stories in the Magazines by Frederick S. FrankGothic Drama by Frederick S. FrankNathaniel Hawthorne by Frederick S. FrankE.T.A. Hoffman by Douglass H. ThomsonJames Hogg by Douglass H. ThomsonWashington Irving by Jack G. VollerHenry James by Douglass H. ThomsonStephen King by Tony MagistraleIzumi Kyoka by Frederick S. FrankD.H. Lawrence by John HummaSophia Lee by Douglass H. ThomsonJoseph Sheridan LeFanu by Jack G. VollerMatthew Gregory "Monk" Lewis by Jack G. VollerGeorge Lippard by Frederick S. FrankH.P. Lovecraft by S. T. JoshiArthur Machen by Jack G. VollerCharles Robert Maturin by Jack G. VollerHerman Melville by Douglass H. ThomsonToni Morrison by David DudleyFlannery O'Connor by Douglass H. ThomsonJoyce Carol Oates by Susan Allen FordVladimir Odoevsky by Frederick S. FrankEdgar Allan Poe by Frederick S. FrankJohn Polidori by Douglass H. ThomsonAnn Radcliffe by Frederick S. FrankClara Reeve by Jack G. VollerMarquis de Sade by Douglass H. ThomsonFriedrich Schiller by Tom LloydSir Walter Scott by Michael GamerMary Wollstonecraft by Marie Mulvey-RobertsPercy Bysshe Shelley by Jack G. Voller and Douglass ThomsonCharlotte Smith by Jack G. VollerRobert Louis Stevenson by Douglass H. ThomsonBram Stoker by Jack G. VollerLudwig Tieck by Tom LloydHorace Walpole by Frederick S. FrankThe Gothic Timeline: 1762-2000General Bibliography of Critical Sources and ResourcesAuthors/Titles IndexCritics IndexSubject/Theme/Motif Index