The mysterious author Horace Walpole -- The translator cloak'd: Sophia Lee, Clara Reeve and Charlotte Smith -- Versions of Gothic and terror -- The castle under threat: Ann Radcliffe's system and the romance of Europe -- 'The Order Disorder'd': French convents and British liberty -- Conclusion: afterlives
Summary
Explores the development of the Gothic through the history of martial, political and literary conflict between Britain and France
