Table of Contents for THE GOTHIC TEXT

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