Literature, the Gothic and the Reconstruction of History

Introduction - Neil Cocks and Daniel Renshaw; Part I. The Prehuman and Prehistoric; 1. Gothic Nightmares of Prehistory: How the Victorian Imagination Gave Birth to Dinosaurs as We Know Them; 2. Natural History vs. Human History: The Scary Return of the Past in Fortitude; Part II. The Medieval and the Early Modern; 3. "'Tis a fearful height!": Temporal and Physical Vertigo in Eighteenth-Century Gothic Plays; 4. "Embodied, to the eye of Fear": Affective Encounters and Antiquarian Mediation in Anne Bannerman's Tales of Superstition and Chivalry; 5. An Inheritance of Witches: William Harrison Ainsworth's Uses of the Medieval in The Lancashire Witches; 6. Winterson's Witches: A Reappraisal and Reclamation of the Abject; Part III. The Long Nineteenth Century; 7. Human Remains and/in Gothic Nightmares: Revisiting the Past?; 8. "The Pretence of Civilisation": Gothic Progress in G. W. M. Reynolds's The Mysteries of London; 9. The Gothic Nature of Archives and the Work of M.R James and Henry James; 10. Transnational Gothic Histories and the Migrant Experience in Britain; Part IV. The Modern; 11. The Haunting of the Past in Contemporary Italian Gothic Fiction; 12. History, Haunting through the Layers in Contemporary Staged Ghost Stories; 13. "The Historical Text as Literary Artifact", or Reading History as Gothic: Identity, Event, Time; Index

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