Gothic Print Culture, 1789-1900

This volume tracks the evolution of gothic drama through nineteenth-century print culture. Gothic novels, such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), found new audiences when they were adapted to the stage, and gothic novelists, such as Horace Walpole, Monk Lewis and Charles Maturin, also wrote gothic dramas, which were much more lucrative for authors than the novels that we remember and reprint today. By including a volume on drama, this collection not onlymakes available rare plays and associated advertisements and posters, but also bridges the gap between Romantic and Victorian gothic fiction and early gothic film, providing a fuller picture of the development of the gothic across genres and media. 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).