Introduction: what is the Gothic? 1. Historicizing the Gothic 2. Gothic aesthetic - the Gothic as discourse 3. hygienic self - gender in the Gothic 4. Narratives of nurture 5. Narratives of descent 6. Radcliffe and interiority - towards the making of The Mysteries of Udolpho 7. Horrid shadows - the Gothic in Northanger Abbey 8. Acatars of Mathew Lewis's The Monk , Ann Radcliffe's The Italian and Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya or, the Moor 9. poetic tale of terror - Christabel, The Eve of St Agnes and Lamia 10. Conclusion - Lee's Kruitzner and Byron's Werner.