The Cambridge History of the Gothic

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Introduction
1. Gothic romanticism and the summer of 1816 Angela Wright and Madeleine Callaghan
2. Fantasmagoriana: The cosmopolitan gothic and Frankenstein Maximiliaan van Woudenberg
3. The mutation of the vampire in nineteenth-century gothic Jerrold E. Hogle
4. From romantic gothic to Victorian medievalism:
1817 and 1877 Tom Duggett
5. Nineteenth-century gothic architectural aesthetics: A. W. N. Pugin, John Ruskin and William Morris Alexandra Warwick
6. Gothic fiction, from shilling shockers to penny bloods Anthony Mandal
7. The theatrical gothic in the nineteenth century Kelly Jones
8. 'Specterology': gothic showmanship in nineteenth-century popular shows and media Joe Kember
9. The gothic in Victorian poetry Serena Trowbridge
10. The genesis of the Victorian ghost story Scott Brewster
11. Charles dickens and the gothic John Bowen
12. Victorian domestic gothic fiction Tamar Heller
13. The gothic in nineteenth-century Spain Xavier Aldana Reyes and Rocío Rødtjer
14. The gothic in nineteenth-century Italy Francesca Saggini
15. The gothic in nineteenth-century Scotland Suzanne Gilbert
16. The gothic in nineteenth-century Ireland Christina Morin
17. The gothic in nineteenth-century America Charles L. Crow
18. Nineteenth-century British and American gothic and the history of slavery Maisha Wester
19. Genealogies of monstrosity: Darwin, the biology of crime and nineteenth-century British gothic literature Corinna Wagner
20. Gothic and the coming of the railways William Hughes
21. Gothic imperialism at the fin de siècle Andrew Smith.

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