The Female Gothic

1. Introduction: Defining the Female Gothic
Diana Wallace, Andrew Smith

2. Female Gothic and the Institutionalisation of Gothic Studies
Lauren Fitzgerald

3. ‘The Haunting Idea’: Female Gothic Metaphors and Feminist Theory
Diana Wallace

4. ‘Mother Radcliff’: Ann Radcliffe and the Female Gothic
Robert Miles

5. Disturbing the Female Gothic: An Excavation of the Northanger Novels
Angela Wright

6. Bleeding Nuns: A Genealogy of the Female Gothic Grotesque
Alison Milbank

7. From Bluebeard’s Bloody Chamber to Demonic Stigmatic
Marie Mulvey-Roberts

8. Keeping It in the Family: Incest and the Female Gothic Plot in du Maurier and Murdoch
Avril Horner, Sue Zlosnik

9. ‘I Don’t Want to be a [White] Girl’: Gender, Race and Resistance in the Southern Gothic
Meredith Miller

10. Children of the Night: Shirley Jackson’s Domestic Female Gothic
Andrew Smith

11. Others, Monsters, Ghosts: Representations of the Female Gothic Body in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Love
Anya Heise-von Lippe

12. ‘Unhomely Moments’: Reading and Writing Nation in Welsh Female Gothic
Kirsti Bohata

13. Monstrous Regiments of Women and Brides of Frankenstein: Gendered Body Politics in Scottish Female Gothic Fiction
Carol Margaret Davison

Keywords: Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Gender Studies, Eighteenth-Century Literature