Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: What Gothic Nightmares Do 1. Precedents for "Gothic" Fear: Medieval Life, Jacobean Drama, and Eighteenth-Century Attitudes 2. Sexual Violence and Woman's Place: The Castle of Otranto 3. Sentiment versus Horror: Generic Ambivalence in Female Gothic and Ann Radcliffe's A Siciliann Romance 4. Public Censorship and Personal Repression: The Monk 5. The Industrial Demon: Frankenstein 6. The Descent of Man and the Anxiety of Upward Mobility: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 7. The Reptilian Brain at the Fin de Siecle: Dracula 8. American Gothic: Historical and Psychological Critique in Stephen King's The Shining Epilogue: Alien and the Future of Gothic Notes Works Cited Index

About the Author

Valdine Clemens is a Research Affiliate with the University of Manitoba, Canada.

Reviews

"Clemens convincingly points out that the Gothic use of images is not simply to evoke terror but to identify collective problems. I particularly like her application of Jungian archetypal theory. Although the word 'repressed' in the title suggests psychological, Clemens balances the psychological with the historical and political." - Charlotte Spivack, University of Massachusetts, Amherst