Gothic literature

Introduction: Gothic histories

Reading the gothic

Burke

Freud

Chapter 1: The gothic heyday, 1760-1820

Defining the gothic: Otranto

Radcliffe and Lewis

American gothic

Reading Frankenstein

Chapter 2: The gothic, 1820-1865

Gothic mutations: poetry

Edgar Allen Poe and the American gothic

Gothic mutations: prose

Reading Jane Eyre

Chapter 3: Gothic Proximities, 1865-1900

Hidden identities: ghosts

Gothic doubles

Race and history: post-bellum gothic

Reading Dracula

Chapter 4: Twentieth century

The ghost story as the end of gothic?

Radio and film

Contemporary fiction: postmodern gothic?

Reading The silence of the lambs

Chapter 5: Contemporary gothic

Television

Neo-Victorian gothic

Postcolonial gothic

Reading The Historian

Conclusion.