From Wollstonecraft to Stoker: essays on Gothic and Victorian sensation fiction

Part one : The instability of identity : character, class, and gender

Desire and fear : feminine abjection in the Gothic fiction of Mary Wollstonecraft / Marilyn Brock

"The maiden felt hot pain" : agency and passivity in the work of Letitia Elizabeth Landon / Richard Fantina

"Portrait of a governess, disconnected, poor, and plain" : staging the spectral self in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre / Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

A shock to the system, a system to the shocks : the horrors of the "happy ending" in The Woman in White / Judith Sanders

Hysterical sensations : bodies in action in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White / Elizabeth Anderman

Part two : The colonial context of Gothic and sensation fiction

Sensations down under : Australia's charge in Great Expectations and Lady Audley's Secret / Julie M. Barst

Reading between the (blood)lines of Victorian vampires : Mary Elizabeth Braddon's "Good Lady Ducayne" / Saverio Tomaiuolo

The vamp and the good English mother : female roles in Le Fanu's Carmilla and Stoker's Dracula / Marilyn Brock

Liminality and power in Bram Stoker's Jewel of Seven Stars / Kate Holterhoff

Part three : Fallen woman, fallen man in the Victorian novel

Ruth : an analysis of the Victorian signifieds / Maria Granic-White

In the company of men : masculinity gone wild in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case if Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Jennifer Beauvais

Ghostly absence and sexual presence in James's "Owens Wingrave" "The Jolly Corner."