Women's Authorship and the Early Gothic : Legacies and Innovations.

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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustration -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Alternative Genealogies: (Re)tracing the Origins of Women's Gothic in Sophia Lee's The Recess and Mrs Carver's The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey -- 2 Gothic before Gothic: Minerva Press Reviews, Gender and the Evolution of Genre -- 3 What 'Poor Mrs Kelly' Saw: Isabella Kelly Reads The Monk -- 4 Mary Robinson's Gothic and the Prison of Gender -- 5 Adopting the 'Orphan': Literary Exchange and Appropriation in Eleanor Sleath's The Orphan of the Rhine

6 The Fiction of Mary Julia Young: Female Trade Gothic and Romantic Genre-Mixing -- 7 Sarah Wilkinson and J.F. Hughes: A Literary Relationship -- 8 Negotiating Gothic Nationalisms in Ann Radcliffe's Post-1797 Texts: Gaston de Blondeville (1826) and St. Alban's Abbey (1808) -- 9 Regina Maria Roche's The Children of the Abbey (1796): Its Literary Life and Afterlife -- 10 Self-haunted Heroines: Remapping the Generic 'I' back into Romantic Subjectivities -- Notes -- Bibliography

This collection examines Gothic fiction written by female authors in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Analysing works by lesser known authors within a historical context, the collection offers a fresh perspective on women writers and their contributions to Gothic literature.

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