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,

Introduction/ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD -- Sir Bertrand's Adventures in a Ruinous Castle (1800)/SOPHIA LEE -- The Recess (1802)/CHARLOTTE -- Rayland Hall (1810)/ANN RADCLIFFE -- The Midnight Assassin (1802) -- The Southern Tower (1802)/SARAH WILKINSON -- The Spectres (1814) -- The White Pilgrim (n. d.) -- The White Cottage (n. d.)