Gothic Print Culture, 1789-1900

The third volume of Gothic Print Culture, 1789-1900 reprints short Gothic fiction published in miscellaneous magazines. In doing so, it places Gothic fiction in direct conversation with the editorials, the advice columns, the travel accounts and the social and political commentaries that these magazines featured. These magazines also highlight the Gothic's own miscellaneous nature, its tendency to incorporate poems, songs, translations, travel narratives and antiquarian materials. Early in the century, Gothic fiction was published primarily in women's magazines such as The Lady's Magazine and La Belle Assemblée. This shifted in the mid-century magazine. Gothic fiction by Samuel Ferguson and George Augustus Sala engages with the scientific content of Blackwood's and the social commentary of Household Words, while Irish Gothic fiction by Sheridan Le Fanu and James Mangan appeared alongside the antiquarian and political features of the Dublin University Magazine. This volume finds parallels between the history of the magazine and the history of the Gothic and, in doing so, links the Gothic in new ways to biography, translation, fashion, history and politics.

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.

1 The Two Castles; A Romance E. F. 2 Edeliza; A Gothic Tale E. W. 3 The Two Monks M. 4 Castle Walstenforth ANON. 5 Laurenstein Castle; or the Ghost of a Nun ANON. 6 The Withered Arm ANON. 7 Castle-Goblin, or the Tower of Neuftchaberg ANON. 8 The Italian Travellers F. A. 9 Tales from the Cloister J. H. MERIVALE 10 The Involuntary Experimentalist S. FERGUSON 11 The Ghost and the Bone-Setter S. LE FANU 12 The Man in the Cloak: A Very German Story J. MANGAN 13 Legend of the Haunted Castle ANON. 14 A Story of a Weir-Wolf C. CROWE 15 Death of a Goblin H. MORLEY 16 A Dead Secret G. A. SALA 17 Three Nights in an Old Country House: A Grandmother's Reminiscence A. M. F. ANNAN 18 My Experience S. A. FROST 19 The Mystery at Fernwood M. E. BRADDON 20 The Sire de Malétroit's Door R. L. STEVENSON 21 Earthbound M. OLIPHANT 22 In Castle Dangerous A. LANG