Offers an introduction to British Gothic literature. This book examines works by Gothic authors such as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin and Mary Shelley against the backdrop of eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century British social and political history.

In 1987, Archibald Constable and Company published a novel by the unheralded Bram Stoker. That novel, Dracula, has gone on to become the most influential novel of all time. To commemorate the centennial of that novel, Carol Margaret Davison has brought together this collection of essays by some of the world's leading scholars.

Anti Semitism and British Gothic Literature examines the Gothic's engagement with the Jewish Question and British national identity over the course of a century. Beginning with an exploration of Jewish demonology from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, Davison interprets the changing significance of the trans national Wandering Jew in classic Gothic fiction who later migrates into Victorian ...