Victorian gothic: literary and cultural manifestations in the nineteenth century

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Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations Preface: 'I Could a Tale Unfold' or, the Promise of Gothic R.Robbins & J.Wolfreys 'Designing Gourmet Children or, KIDS FOR DINNER!' J.R.Kinkaid Resurrecting the Regency: Horror and Eighteenth-Century Comedy in Le Fanu's Fiction V.Sage 'I Wants to Make your Flesh Creep': Notes toward a Reading of the Comic-Gothic in Dickens J.Wolfreys Hopkins and the Gothic Body R.J.C.Watt From King Arthur to Sidonia the Sorceress: The Dual Nature of Pre-Raphaelite Medievalism J.-A.George Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Literary Influence, and Technologies of the Uncanny A.Chapman The 'Anxious Dream': Julia Margaret Cameron's Gothic Perspective M.Wynne-Davies Trance Gothic, 1882-1897 R.Luckhurst 'Withered, Wrinkled, and Loathsome of Visage': Reading the Ethics of the Souls and the Late-Victorian Gothic in The Picture of Dorian Gray K.Womack Apparitions Can Be Deceptive: Vernon Lee's Androgynous Spectres R.Robbins Gothic and Supernatural: Allegories at Work and Play in Kipling's Indian Fiction P. Morey Archaeology and Gothic Desire: Vitality Beyond the Grave in H.Rider Haggard's Ancient Egypt R.Pearson Bibliography Index