Gothic Print Culture, 1789-1900

The second volume of Gothic Print Culture, 1789-1900 reprints Gothic chapbooks. These shorter and cheaper pamphlets capitalized on the Gothic's popularity and were marketed to working-class audiences. Chapbook publishers such as Ann Lemoine and Thomas Tegg took advantage of copyright law's failure to address formats beyond the book in order to abridge, excerpt and adapt versions of popular novels and dramas, particularly works by Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis. By commissioning elaborate frontispieces for almost all Gothic chapbooks, publishers also pioneered a visual language for the Gothic. Although many chapbooks were published anonymously, prolific chapbook writers, such as Isaac Crookenden and Sarah Wilkinson, have been dismissed as hacks because of their reliance on Gothic formulas and practices of adaptation. The Gothic chapbooks included in this volume challenge the marginalization of chapbook writers and publishers and frame the interplay between original and adaptation as central to studies of not only the chapbook form but also the Gothic itself.

Jennifer Camden is the Beverley J. Pitts Distinguished Professor of the Ron and Laura Strain Honors College and Associate Chair and Professor of English at University of Indianapolis. She is the author of Secondary Heroines in the Nineteenth-Century British and American Novel (Routledge, 2010) and, with Kate Faber Oestreich, Transmedia Storytelling: Pemberley Digital's Adaptations of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley (Cambridge Scholars, 2018), as well as articles on women writers and gothic fiction. JoEllen DeLucia is Professor of English at Central Michigan University. She is the author of A Feminine Enlightenment: British Women Writers and the Philosophy of Progress, 1759-1820 (EUP, 2015). She has also published several articles on women writers, Enlightenment moral philosophy, and Gothic fiction, as well as an edited collection with Juliet Shields on the literature and history of migration.

PART 1: Publishers 1 Edmund and Albina; or, Gothic Times. A Romance ANON. 2 Highland Heroism; or the Castles of Glencoe and Balloch ATTRIBUTED TO R. DOUGLAS 3 Romano Castle; or, the Horrors of the Forest. A Romance L. WATKINS PART 2: Authors 4 Zittaw the Cruel; or the Woodman's Daughter: a Polish romance S. WILKINSON 5 Romantic Tales. The Revengeful Turk; or, Mystic Cavern. The Distressed Nun; or, Sufferings of Herselia di Brindoli of Florence. And the Vindictive Monk; or, Fatal Ring I . CROOKENDEN 6 The Phantom Horseman; or, Saved by a Spectre. A Story of the Dark Ages C. E. STONE PART 3: Novels to Chapbooks 7 The Castle of the Pyrenees; or, the Wanderer of the Alps. An Historic Tale ANON. 8 The Mysteries of Udolpho, A Romance, Founded on Facts; Comprising the Adventures & Misfortunes of Emily St. Aubert, To which is added Adolphus and Louisa, or, the Fatal Attachment, A Tale of Truth ANON. PART 4: Theater and Chapbooks 9 The Vampire; or, Bride of the Isles, a Tale, Founded on the Popular Superstition of Caledonia ANON. 10 The Round Tower, or the Mysterious Witness: an Irish legendary tale of the sixth century C. F. BARRETT