1st Edition

Gothic Print Culture, 1789-1900 Volume I: Novels

Edited By Jennifer Camden, JoEllen DeLucia Copyright 2026
312 Pages
by Routledge

The first volume of Gothic Print Culture, 1789-1900 reprints excerpts from rare Gothic novels to chart the relationship between Gothic aesthetics and the shifting economic, technological and legal affordances of print in the long nineteenth century. Highlighting the anonymous and pseudonymous authors, commercial presses and circulating libraries—such as the Minerva Press—that shaped the early... Read more

Volume I. Novels

  

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

General Introduction

Volume I Introduction

 

1. Anon., Phantoms of the Cloister; or The Mysterious Manuscript. A Novel (London, William Lane at the Minerva Press, 1795). 3 vols.

2. F. C. Patrick, The Jesuit, or the history of Antony Babington, Esq: a historical novel (London and Bath: R. Cruttwell, 1799). 3 vols.  

3. Eliza Ratcliffe, The Mysterious Baron or the Castle in the Forest: A Gothic Story (London: J. B. G. Vogel, 1808). 1 vol. 

4. Jacques Cazotte, Anon. Trans. Biondetta, or the Enamoured Spirit: A Romance. Translated from Le Diable Amoureux of M. Cazotte (London: John Miller, 1810). 1 vol. 

5. J. Hutton, The Castle of Altenheim, or the Mysterious Monk: A Tale. (Philadelphia: A. I. Dickinson, 1836). 1 vol.

6. J. W. Loudon, The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (London: Henry Colburn, 1828). 3 vols.

7. W. H. Ainsworth, Windsor Castle: A Historical Romance (London: Henry Colburn, 1843).  1 vol.  

8. J. M. Rymer, The Apparition: a Romance. (London: Edward Lloyd, 1846). 1 vol.

9. R. F. Burton, Vikram and the Vampire (London: Longman 1870). 1 vol.

10. M. A. Fleming, The Midnight Queen. A Novel (New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1888). 1 vol.

11. J. Gordon, (pseud.), Vampires (London: Ward, Lock & Bowden, Ltd. 1893). 1 vol.

12. C. L. Daniels, Sardia: a Tale of Love (Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1891). 1 vol.

Bibliography

Index

 

 

 

Biography

Jennifer Camden is the Beverley J. Pitts Distinguished Professor of the Ron and Laura Strain Honors College and Associate Chair and Professor of English at University of Indianapolis. She is the author of Secondary Heroines in the Nineteenth-Century British and American Novel (Routledge, 2010) and, with Kate Faber Oestreich, Transmedia Storytelling: Pemberley Digital’s Adaptations of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley (Cambridge Scholars, 2018), as well as articles on women writers and gothic fiction.

JoEllen DeLucia is Professor of English at Central Michigan University. She is the author of A Feminine Enlightenment: British Women Writers and the Philosophy of Progress, 1759-1820 (EUP, 2015). She has also published several articles on women writers, Enlightenment moral philosophy, and Gothic fiction, as well as an edited collection with Juliet Shields on the literature and history of migration.