Le Gothic Influences and Appropriations in

This new collection of essays by major scholars in the field looks at the ways in which cross-fertilization has taken place in Gothic writing from France, Germany, Britain and America over the last 200 years, and argues that Gothic writing reflects international exchanges in theme and form.

AVRIL HORNER is Professor of English at Kingston University, London. SUE ZLOSNIK is Professor of English at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of Figures	p. x
Notes on the Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Paris Nexus
Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris, Leroux's Le Fantome de l'Opera and the Changing Functions of the Gothic	p. 15
Edgar Allan Poe in Paris: The Flaneur, the Detournement and the Gothic Spaces of the Nineteenth-Century City	p. 38
Blood in Paris: Transformations of Revolutionary Gothic in Henry James and Elizabeth Bowen	p. 50
Channel Crossings
'How do we ape thee, France!' The Cult of Rousseau in Women's Gothic Writing in the 1790s	p. 67
Huysmans, Machen and the Gothic Grotesque, Or: The Way Up is the Way Down	p. 83
Gothic Permutations from the 1790s to the 1970s: Rethinking the Marquis de Sade's Legacy	p. 100
Dracula's Daughters: Angela Carter and Pierrette Fleutiaux's Vampiric Exchanges	p. 116
Transatlantic Voyages
Beast's Triumph over Beauty in Gothic Film	p. 137
'Who is the third who walks always beside you?' Eliot, Stoker and Stetson in The Waste Land	p. 151
Calvinist Gothic: The Case of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, or the Transformation and James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner	p. 166
Colonial Ghosts: Mimicking Dickens in America	p. 185
Coda: Other Directions
Translating Technologies: Dickens, Kafka and the Gothic	p. 201
A Voyage through the Phantom Museum	p. 219
Index	p. 243
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