Bridget M. Marshall is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where she teaches courses on the Gothic, New England witchcraft trials, and disability in literature.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Weaving a Transatlantic Gothic Industrial HistoryChapter 1: The Industrial Gothic NovelChapter 2: Industrializing the Gothic Victim/Heroine: Mill Girls and Factory Girls Chapter 3: The Carceral Gothic and the Cotton Industrial ComplexChapter 4: Old and New Industrial Horrors: Monsters and Disabled BodiesChapter 5: The Industrial Environment: EcoGothic HorrorsEpilogue: Unravelling the Industrial Gothic

"Industrial Gothic is a succinctly written, well-researched study, which demonstrates how in its early stages the Gothic offered a reservoir of rhetoric and imagery to powerfully expose and vilify social injustice suffered by the most vulnerable in an era of unprecedented and uncontrolled industrial expansion. Its great merit is undoubtedly creating a new critical category of 'Industrial Gothic' which goes beyond geographical, political and class divisions and encompasses a wide selection of texts, British and American, fiction and non-fiction, canonical and by unknown factory workers. By exploring the way the Gothic was used to depict damage caused by industry not only to human beings but also to the natural environment, Bridget Marshall’s book broadens our understanding of the Gothic as a powerful and effective mode directly engaged with the most acute problems of contemporary times." --Agnieszka Łowczanin, University of Łódź

Bridget M. Marshall is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where she teaches courses on the Gothic, New England witchcraft trials, and disability in literature.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Weaving a Transatlantic Gothic Industrial HistoryChapter 1: The Industrial Gothic NovelChapter 2: Industrializing the Gothic Victim/Heroine: Mill Girls and Factory Girls Chapter 3: The Carceral Gothic and the Cotton Industrial ComplexChapter 4: Old and New Industrial Horrors: Monsters and Disabled BodiesChapter 5: The Industrial Environment: EcoGothic HorrorsEpilogue: Unravelling the Industrial Gothic

"Industrial Gothic is a succinctly written, well-researched study, which demonstrates how in its early stages the Gothic offered a reservoir of rhetoric and imagery to powerfully expose and vilify social injustice suffered by the most vulnerable in an era of unprecedented and uncontrolled industrial expansion. Its great merit is undoubtedly creating a new critical category of 'Industrial Gothic' which goes beyond geographical, political and class divisions and encompasses a wide selection of texts, British and American, fiction and non-fiction, canonical and by unknown factory workers. By exploring the way the Gothic was used to depict damage caused by industry not only to human beings but also to the natural environment, Bridget Marshall’s book broadens our understanding of the Gothic as a powerful and effective mode directly engaged with the most acute problems of contemporary times." --Agnieszka Łowczanin, University of Łódź

Bridget M. Marshall is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, where she teaches courses on the Gothic, New England witchcraft trials, and disability in literature.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Weaving a Transatlantic Gothic Industrial HistoryChapter 1: The Industrial Gothic NovelChapter 2: Industrializing the Gothic Victim/Heroine: Mill Girls and Factory Girls Chapter 3: The Carceral Gothic and the Cotton Industrial ComplexChapter 4: Old and New Industrial Horrors: Monsters and Disabled BodiesChapter 5: The Industrial Environment: EcoGothic HorrorsEpilogue: Unravelling the Industrial Gothic

"Industrial Gothic is a succinctly written, well-researched study, which demonstrates how in its early stages the Gothic offered a reservoir of rhetoric and imagery to powerfully expose and vilify social injustice suffered by the most vulnerable in an era of unprecedented and uncontrolled industrial expansion. Its great merit is undoubtedly creating a new critical category of 'Industrial Gothic' which goes beyond geographical, political and class divisions and encompasses a wide selection of texts, British and American, fiction and non-fiction, canonical and by unknown factory workers. By exploring the way the Gothic was used to depict damage caused by industry not only to human beings but also to the natural environment, Bridget Marshall’s book broadens our understanding of the Gothic as a powerful and effective mode directly engaged with the most acute problems of contemporary times." --Agnieszka Łowczanin, University of Łódź