Introduction: the gothic on the couch -- The two-headed gothic monster -- Retrospective fantasy and the uncanny structure of gothic romance -- Horace Walpole and the perverse origins of the gothic romance -- Sexual difference and the gothic sublime -- Ann Radcliffe and the gothic terror of hysteria -- Matthew Lewis and the gothic horror of obsessional neurosis -- Conclusion: James Hogg, the psychotic doppelgänger, and the foreclosure of the gothic
Summary
"This book uses clinical psychoanalytic theory to illustrate how early British Gothic fiction reveals undercurrents of psychopathological behavior. Chapters consider the division of the Gothic novel; how early British Gothic romance parallels Freud's notion; the genre's origins in Walpole's The Castle of Otranto; sexual differentiation; Ann Radcliffe; Matthew Lewis; and the confusion between self and other"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-203) and index
