Abstract
Part 1 Introduction: contemporary reception - the pre and early Victorian critical heritage the Victorian reaction late Victorian views modern judgements an age in transition. Part 2 Blood and thunder - Gothic apprenticeship: essential juvenilia, 1821-1823 the best of the rest - December Tales, 1823 the first -Sir John Chiverton, 1826. Part 3 Fame and infamy - Rookwood, romance, 1834: life in London - business, family and Fraser's, 1826-1834 the design of romance - Rookwood, Scott and the gothic the phantom steed - the outlaw narrative of Rookwood. Part 4 Writing the underworld - Jack Sheppard, romance, 1839: a sort of Hogartharian novel vagabondiana - Jack Sheppard and social exploration the storm - the Newgate controversy. Part 5 historical novelist - prophecy, passivity and tragedy: twin-born romances - Guy Fawkes and The Tower of London, 1840 hell on earth - Old St. Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire, 1841 the devil and his works - Windsor Castle, 1843 and Auriol, 1844. Part 6 Lancashire novelist: dream of flying - The Lancashire Witches - Romance of Pendle Forest, 1848 the Lancashire novels. Part 7 greatest axe-and-neck romancer of our time: growing old gracefully - 1850-1881 man of La Manchester. Part 8 Something like conclusion: appendices.
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