Contents

• Materials / Tamar Heller
• Introduction / Diane Long Hoeveler and Tamar Heller
• "And still insists he sees the ghosts" : defining the Gothic / Judith Wilt
• Philosophy and the Gothic novel / Marshall Brown
• The Gothic and ideology / Robert Miles
• Teaching the Gothic through the visual arts / Stephen C. Behrendt
• The horrors of misogyny : feminist psychoanalysis in the Gothic classroom / Anne Williams
• Teaching the Gothic and the scientific context / Carol A. Senf
• The first English Gothic novel : Walpole’s ‘The castle of Otranto’ / James Norton
• Early women’s Gothic writing : historicity and canonicity in Clara Reeve’s ‘The old English baron’ and Sophia Lee’s ‘The recess’ / Angela Wright
• Teaching the early female canon : Gothic feminism in Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Austen, Dacre, and Shelley / Diane Long Hoeveler
• Suffering through the Gothic : teaching Radcliffe / Cannon Schmitt
• Teaching the male Gothic : Lewis, Beckford, and Stevenson / Scott Simpkins
• Teaching the homosocial in Godwin, Hogg, and Wilde / Ranita Chatterjee and Patrick M. Horan
• Teaching the Gothic novel and dramatic adaptations / Marjean D. Purinton
• Teaching Irish Gothic : big-house displacements in Maturin and Le Fanu / Mark M. Hennelly, Jr.
• Fear of furniture : commodity Gothicism and the teaching of Victorian literature / Tricia Lootens
• Hearts of darkness : teaching race, gender, and imperialism in Victorian Gothic literature / Tamar Heller
• Surveying the vampire in nineteenth-century British literature / Daniel Scoggin
• Teaching contemporary female Gothic : Murdoch, Carter, Atwood / Susan Allen Ford
• Historicizing the American Gothic : Charles Brockden Brown’s ‘Wieland’ / Teresa A. Goddu
• Using narrative form to teach Poe’s Gothic fiction / Richard Fusco
• Teaching the doppelgänger in American Gothic fiction : Poe and James / A.A. Markley
• The fall of the house of the seven gables and other ambiguities of the American Gothic / Laura Dabundo
• Supernatural transmissions : turn-of- the-century ghosts in American women’s fiction : Jewett, Freeman, Wharton, and Gilman / Kathy Justice Gentile
• Teaching the African American Gothic : from its multiple sources to ‘Linden Hills’ and ‘Beloved’ / Jerrold E. Hogle
• Making the case : teaching Stephen King and Anne Rice through the Gothic tradition / Bette B. Roberts
• Teaching the Gothic in an interdisciplinary honors class / Sandy Feinstein
• Involving resistant readers : exploring the Gothic through role-playing and identity writing / Mark James Morreale
• Teaching Gothic literature through filmic adaptations / Wheeler Winston Dixon