This text offers scholarly and critical editions of significant novels of Gothic fiction from the Romantic period. It illustrates the various forms of female Gothic literature as a vehicle for representing the modern forms of subjectivity, or complex and authentic inward experience and identity.

Gary Kelly,

Acknowledgements -- General introduction -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Chronology -- Note on the texts/CLARA REEVE -- The Champion of Virtue (1777)/MARY BUTT -- The Traditions (1795) -- Explanatory notes -- Textual notes.