The Cambridge History of the Gothic

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Introduction: The Gothic in/and History Dale Townshend, Angela Wright and Catherine Spooner 1. The Goths in Ancient History David M. Gwynn
2. The Term 'Gothic' in the Long Eighteenth Century, 1680‒1800 Nick Groom
3. The Literary Gothic Before Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto Dale Townshend
4. Gothic Revival Architecture Before Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Peter N. Lindfield
5. Horace Walpole and the Gothic Stephen Clarke
6. Shakespeare's Gothic Transmigrations Anne Williams
7. Reassessing the Gothic / Classical Relationship James Uden
8. 'A World of Bad Spirits': The Terrors of Eighteenth-Century Empire Ruth Scobie
9. In Their Blood: The Eighteenth-Century Gothic Stage Paula R. Backscheider
10. Domestic Gothic Writing after Horace Walpole and before Ann Radcliffe Deborah Russell
11. Early British Gothic and the American Revolution James Watt
12. Gothic and the French Revolution, 1789–1804 Fanny Lacôte
13. The Aesthetics of Terror and Horror: A Genealogy Eric Parisot
14. Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis Angela Wright
15. The Gothic Novel Beyond Radcliffe and Lewis Yael Shapira
16. Oriental Gothic: Imperial-Commercial Nightmares from the Eighteenth Century to the Romantic Period Diego Saglia
17. The German 'School' of Horrors: A Pharmacology of the Gothic Barry Murnane
18. Gothic and the History of Sexuality Jolene Zigarovich
19. Gothic Art and Gothic Culture in the Romantic Era Martin Myrone
20. Time in the Gothic Robert Miles
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