Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-275) and index.
Contents
Gothic riffs : songs in the key of secularization -- Gothic mediations : Shakespeare, the sentimental, and the secularization of virtue -- "Rescue operas" and providential deism -- Ghostly visitants : the gothic drama and the coexistence of immanence and transcendence -- Entr'acte. Melodramatizing the gothic : the case of Thomas Holcroft -- The gothic ballad and blood sacrifice : from Bürger to Wordsworth -- The gothic chapbook : the class-based circulation of the unexplained supernatural.
