1st Edition
Literature, the Gothic and the Reconstruction of History The Past as Nightmare
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Daniel Renshaw and Neil Cocks
Part I. The Prehuman and Prehistoric
Chapter 1. Gothic Nightmares of Prehistory: How the Victorian Imagination Gave Birth to Dinosaurs as We Know Them - Charles Hoge
Chapter 2. Natural History vs. Human History: The Scary Return of the Past in Fortitude - Mariaconcetta Costantini
Part II. The Medieval and the Early Modern
Chapter 3. “’Tis a fearful height!”: Temporal and Physical Vertigo in Eighteenth-Century Gothic Plays - Carolyn D. Williams
Chapter 4. “Embodied, to the eye of Fear”: Affective Encounters and Antiquarian Mediation in Anne Bannerman’s Tales of Superstition and Chivalry - Zoë Van Cauwenberg
Chapter 5. An Inheritance of Witches: William Harrison Ainsworth’s Uses of the Medieval in The Lancashire Witches - Alex Carabine
Chapter 6. Winterson’s Witches: A Reappraisal and Reclamation of the Abject - Joolz Barry
Part III. The Long Nineteenth Century
Chapter 7. Human Remains and/in Gothic Nightmares: Revisiting the Past? - Laurence Talairach
Chapter 8. “The Pretence of Civilisation”: Gothic Progress in G. W. M. Reynolds’s The Mysteries of London - Hayley Braithwaite
Chapter 9. The Gothic Nature of Archives and the Work of M.R James and Henry James - Susan Maxwell
Chapter 10. Transnational Gothic Histories and the Migrant Experience in Britain - Daniel Renshaw
Part IV. The Modern
Chapter 11. The Haunting of the Past in Contemporary Italian Gothic Fiction - Andrea Suverato
Chapter 12. History, Haunting through the Layers in Contemporary Staged Ghost Stories - Vicky Brewster
Chapter 13. “The Historical Text as Literary Artifact,” or Reading History as Gothic: Identity, Event, Time - Bonnie McGill
Index
Biography
Daniel Renshaw is Lecturer in Modern History in the Department of History at the University of Reading, UK. His research focuses on migration, diaspora, prejudice and identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Neil Cocks is Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading, UK. He has published widely on subjects as diverse as Victorian literature, children’s literature, Ayn Rand, critical university studies, film theory and the Gothic.
