Gothic Print Culture, 1789-1900

This volume centers on gothic literature in the periodical press. Periodicals, magazines, and penny papers broadened access to gothic fiction; in addition, they illustrate how serial gothic fiction interacted with the foreign and domestic news, advice columns, and travel accounts it was often published alongside in periodicals and magazines. This volume focuses on gothic serial fiction, culminating in the Victorian penny dreadful and will feature rarely reproduced illustrations. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this title will be of great interest to students of literature.

Author Biography

Jennifer Camden is the Beverley J. Pitts Distinguished Professor of the Ron and Laura Strain Honors College and Associate Chair and Professor of English at University of Indianapolis. She is the author of Secondary Heroines in the Nineteenth-Century
British and American Novel (Routledge, 2010) and, with Kate Faber Oestreich, Transmedia Storytelling: Pemberley Digital’s Adaptations of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley (Cambridge Scholars, 2018), as well as articles on women writers and gothic
fiction.

JoEllen DeLucia is Professor of English at Central Michigan University. She is the author of A Feminine Enlightenment: British Women Writers and the Philosophy of Progress, 1759-1820 (EUP, 2015), in addition to articles on women writes, moral philosophy, and gothic fiction published in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Women Writers, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, and European Romantic Review. Most recently, she edited with Juliet Shields Migration and Modernities: The State of Being Stateless, 1750-1850 (EUP, 2019).