Angela Wright is Professor of Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield, and currently co-President of the International Gothic Association. A specialist in Romanticism and the Gothic, her previous publications include Gothic Fiction (Palgrave, 2007), Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820: The Import of Terror (Cambridge University Press, 2013); and, with Dale Townshend (eds.) Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Dale Townshend is Senior Lecturer in Gothic and Romantic Studies at the University of Stirling, and director of the MLitt in The Gothic Imagination. His recent publications include The Gothic World (with Glennis Byron; Routledge, 2014); Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic (with Angela Wright; Cambridge University Press, 2014); and Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination (British Library Publishing, 2014). He is currently at work on a monograph entitled Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance and the Architectural Imagination, 1760—1840.

• Notes on Contributors; 1. Gothic and Romantic: An Historical Overview, Dale Townshend and Angela Wright; Part I: Gothic Modes and Forms; 1. Graveyard Writing and the Rise of the Gothic, Vincent Quinn; 2. Gothic Romance, Deborah Russell; 3.The Gothic Stage: Visions of Instability, Performances of Anxiety, Diego Saglia; 4. Gothic Poetry and First-Generation Romanticism, Joel Faflak; 5. Gothic and Second-Generation Romanticism: Lord Byron, P. B. Shelley, John Polidori and Mary Shelley, Jerrold E. Hogle; 6. Political Gothic Fiction, Robert Miles; 7. Shorter Gothic Fictions: Ballads and Chapbooks, Tales and Fragments, Douglass H. Thomson and Diane Long Hoeveler; 8. Oriental Gothic, Peter Kitson; 9. Gothic Parody, Natalie Neill; Part II: National and International Borders; 1. Gothic Borders: Scotland, Ireland and Wales, Meiko O’Halloran; 2. Gothic Travels, Mark Bennett; 3. The Romantic and the Gothic in Europe: The Elementary Spirits in France and Germany as a vehicle for the transmission and development of the Fantastique, 1772-1835, Victor Sage; 4. American Gothic Passages, Carol Margaret Davison; Part III: Reading the Romantic Gothic; 1. Gothic and the Language of Terror, Jane Hodson; 2. Gothic Science, Andrew Smith; 3. Gender and Sexuality in Gothic Romanticism, Patrick O’Malley; 4. Gothic Forms of Time: Architecture, Romanticism, Medievalism, Tom Duggett; 5. Gothic Theology, Alison Milbank.

...a remarkable contribution to its field.