This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor, motherhood and nationality - to open up new critical directions.
Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Defining the Female Gothic; D.Wallace & A.Smith Female Gothic and the Institutionalisation of Gothic Studies; L.Fitzgerald 'The haunting idea': female Gothic metaphors and feminist theory; D.Wallace 'Mother Radcliff': Ann Radcliffe and the Female Gothic; R.Miles Disturbing the Female Gothic: An Excavation of the Northanger Novels; A.Wright Bleeding Nuns: A Genealogy of the Female Grotesque; A.Milbank From Bluebeard's Bloody Chamber to Demonic Stigmatic; M.Mulvey-Roberts Keeping it in the Family: Incest and the Female Gothic Plot in du Maurier and Murdoch; A.Horner & S.Zlosnik 'I Don't Want to be a [White] Girl': Gender, Race and Resistance in the Southern Gothic; M.Miller Children of the night: Shirley Jackson's Domestic Female Gothic; A.Smith Others, Monsters, Ghosts: Representations of the Female Gothic Body in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Love ; A.Heise-von der Lippe 'Unhomely moments': Reading and Writing Nation in Welsh Female Gothic; K.Bohata Monstrous Regiments of Women and Brides of Frankenstein: Gendered Body Politics in Scottish Female Gothic Fiction; C.M.Davison Index
