Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-266) and index.
Contents
Precedents for "Gothic" fear : Medieval life, Jacobean drama, and eighteenth-century attitudes -- Sexual violence and woman's place : The Castle of Otranto -- Sentiment versus horror : generic ambivalence in female Gothic and Ann Radcliffe's A Sicilian romance -- Public censorship and personal repression : The Monk -- The industrial demon : Frankenstein -- The descent of man and the anxiety of upward mobility : The Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde -- The reptilian brain at the fin de siécle : Dracula -- American Gothic : historical and psychological critique in Stephen King's The Shining -- Alien and the future of Gothic.
