Table of Contents for

The Gothic Text

Preface

A Note on Sources

1.      Three Theses on Gothic Fiction

2.      Fantasia: Kant and the Demons of the Night

PART I: ORIGINS: WALPOLE

3.      The Birth of The Castle of Otranto

4.      Excursus: Notes on the History of Psycho-Narration

5.      Ghosts in the Flesh

PART II: KANT AND THE GOTHIC

6.      At the Limits of Kantian Philosophy

7.      Kant's Disciples

8.      Kant and the Doctors

9.      Meditative Interlude

PART III: PHILSOPHY OF THE GOTHIC NOVEL

10.  The Wild Ass's Skin

11.  The Devil's Elixirs

12.  Melmoth the Wanderer

13.  Caleb Williams

PART IV: CONSEQUENCES

14.  In Defense of Cliché: Radcliffe's Landscapes

15.  Frankenstein: A Child's Tale

16.  Postscript: Faust and the Gothic

Notes

Works Cited

Index