Victorian Gothic : Literary and Cultural Manifestations in the Nineteenth Century

To what extent did the Gothic haunt the nineteenth century? Victorian Gothic seeks to answer this as it introduces the reader to a timely revision of notions of the Gothic in all its manifestations.

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations Preface: ''I Could a Tale Unfold'' or, the Promise of Gothic; R.Robbins & J.Wolfreys ''Designing Gourmet Children or, KIDS FOR DINNER!''; J.R.Kinkaid Resurrecting the Regency: Horror and Eighteenth-Century Comedy in Le Fanu''s Fiction; V.Sage ''I Wants to Make your Flesh Creep'': Notes toward a Reading of the Comic-Gothic in Dickens; J.Wolfreys Hopkins and the Gothic Body; R.J.C.Watt From King Arthur to Sidonia the Sorceress: The Dual Nature of Pre-Raphaelite Medievalism; J.-A.George Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Literary Influence, and Technologies of the Uncanny; A.Chapman The ''Anxious Dream'': Julia Margaret Cameron''s Gothic Perspective; M.Wynne-Davies Trance Gothic, 1882-1897; R.Luckhurst ''Withered, Wrinkled, and Loathsome of Visage'': Reading the Ethics of the Souls and the Late-Victorian Gothic in The Picture of Dorian Gray; K.Womack Apparitions Can Be Deceptive: Vernon Lee''s Androgynous Spectres; R.Robbins Gothic and Supernatural: Allegories at Work and Play in Kipling''s Indian Fiction; P. Morey Archaeology and Gothic Desire: Vitality Beyond the Grave in H.Rider Haggard''s Ancient Egypt; R.Pearson Bibliography Index