Introduction: Reading others reading the Gothic -- Theorizing the (Gothic) sublime -- The precursor text -- Gothic fragments and fragmented Gothics -- Unstable text/unstable readings: William Godwin's "Caleb Williams" -- Apocalyptic narratives: tales of ends -- "Frankenstein" : sublime as desecration/decreation -- The Gothic sublime and literary history
Summary
A theoretical reading of key texts of the Gothic--Cover
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-334) and index