Table of Contents

Theories of the Gothic; women and the Gothic; Gothic sublimity - Ann Radcliffe's "The Mysteries of Udolpho"; Gothic parody - Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey" and Eaton Stannard Barrett's "The Heroine"; anti-clerical Gothic - Matthew Lewis's "The Monk"; pseudo-scientific Gothic - Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus".

Reviews

`claims to be - and is - `the first full-length study of Gothic to be written from the perspective of Bakhtinian theory'
Romanticism 1.2
`Howard's learned and illuminating discussion of the German influences on The Monk and its relationship to eighteenth-century writings on the sublime and picturesque is presented as an analysis of the discursive practices which shape its textual dialogism ... an insight of great value to Gothic studies.'
John Strachan, University of Sunderland, British Journal for Eighteenth-century Studies, Vol. 19, Part 1, Spring 1996
`In textual analysis, Reading Gothic Fiction is detailed and consistent.'
Timothy Morton, University of Colorado at Boulder, The Wordsworth Circle, Aug '96