These essays explore some of the most significant current issues concerning the terrain of the Gothic perspective, offering a variety of possible answers to the crucial question: What is Gothic? The collection begins by addressing general issues about the locations and structure of Gothic; this is followed by various considerations of Gothic as a specific historical phenomenon, linked with specific aspects of British, American, and European society; and, finally, by an exploration of Gothic writing during recent decades.

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FRED BOTTING Lecturer in Literary Theory, University of Lancaster CHRISTINE FERGUSON Doctoral student in English, Tulane University, New Orleans JERROLD E. HOGLE Professor of English, University Distinguished Professor, and Chair of the Faculty at the University of Arizona AVRIL HORNER Senior Lecturer in English and Associate Director of the European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford JEANNETTE IDIART University of Washington JENNIFER SCHULZ University of Washington ROBERT MIGHALL Commissioning Editor, London Publisher ERIC SAVOY Professor of American Literature, University of Calgary DAVID SEED Reader in English Studies, University of Liverpool HELEN F. THOMPSON Assistant Professor, Arizona State University BARNARD TURNER Lecturer in Modern Literature, National University of Singapore WILLIAM VEEDER Professor of English, University of Chicago ALEXANDRA WARWICK Lecturer in English, University of Westminster SUE ZLOSNIK Head of English, Liverpool Hope University

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Notes on the Contributors Introduction: D.Punter PART ONE: THEORY: REGIONS OF THE GOTHIC The Gothic Production of the Unconscious; F.Botting Ceremonial Gothic; D.Puntert The Nurture of the Gothic, or, How Can a Text be Both Popular and Subversive?; W.Veeder PART TWO: HEARTLANDS: THE BRITISH NINETEENTH CENTURY Lost Cities: London's Apocalypse; A.Warwick Hell is a City: Symbolic Systems and Epistemological Scepticism in The City of Dreadful Night ; D.Seed 'A Pestilence Which Walketh in Darkness': Diagnosing the Victorian Vampire; R.Mighall PART THREE: AMERICA: STATES OF INSTABILITY American Gothic Landscapes: The New World to Vietnam; J.Idiart & J.Schulz Gothic Numbers in the New Republic: The Federalist No. 10 and its Spectral Factions; H.F. Thompson Spectres of Abjection: The Queer Subject of James's 'The Jolly Corner'; E.Savoy PART FOUR: EUROPE: DIMENSIONS OF THE BODY The Gothic and 'Otherings' of Ascendant Culture: The Original Phantom of the Opera ; J.Hogle Heiner Müller's Medea: Towards a Paradigm for the Contemporary Gothic Anatomy; B.Turner PART FIVE: (RE)VERSIONS Deaths in Venice: Daphne du Maurier's 'Don't Look Now'; A.Horner & S.Zlosnik Dr McGrath's Disease: Radical Pathology in Patrick McGrath's Neo-Gothicism; C.Ferguson Index