LINNIE BLAKE is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University, UKCAROL MARGARET DAVISON is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Windsor, CanadaKATHY JUSTICE GENTILE is Director of the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies and teaches courses in Gothic fiction at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, USAJERROLD E. HOGLE is Professor of English, University Distinguished Professor, and Vice Provost for Instruction at the University of Arizona, USAWILLIAM HUGHES is Professor of Gothic Studies at Bath Spa University, UKRAPHAEL INGELBIEN is a Lecturer in Literary Studies at the University of Leuven, BelgiumALISON MILBANK lectures in Literature and Theology at the University of Nottingham, UKREBECCA MUNFORD is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cardiff, UKBARRY MURNANE is an independent scholarDAVID PUNTER is Professor of English and Research Dean of Arts at the University of Bristol, UKANDREW SMITH is Professor of English Studies at the University of Glamorgan, UKMARIA VARA is a doctoral candidate in the School of English, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, where she teaches courses in writing and fictionANGELA WRIGHT lectures in Romantic and Gothic Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK

'Le Gothic makes essential reading for both comparativists and scholars of the genre.' Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; A.Horner& S.Zlosnik PART ONE: THE PARIS NEXUS Hugo's Notre Dame, Leroux's Fantôme de l'Opéra and the Changing Functions of the Gothic; J.E.Hogle Edgar Allen Poe in Paris: The Flâneur, the Détournement and the Gothic Spaces of the Nineteenth-Century City; L.Blake Blood in Paris: Transformations of Revolutionary Gothic in Henry James and Elizabeth Bowen; R.Ingelbien PART TWO: CHANNEL CROSSINGS The Cult of Rousseau in Women's Gothic Writing in the 1790s; A.Wright Huysmans, Machen and the Gothic Grotesque, Or: The Way Up is the Way Down; A.Milbank Gothic Permutations from the 1790s to the 1970s: Re-thinking the Marquis de Sade's Legacy; M.Vara Dracula's Daughters: Angela Carter and Pierrette Fleutiaux's Vampiric Exchanges; R.Munford PART THREE: TRANSATLANTIC VOYAGES Beast's Triumph over Beauty in Gothic Film; K.J.Gentile 'Who is the third who walks always beside you?': Eliot, Stoker and Stetson in The Waste Land; W.Hughes Calvinist Gothic: The Case of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland, or the Transformation and James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner; C.M.Davison Colonial Ghosts: Mimicking Dickens in America; A.Smith PART THREE: CODA: OTHER DIRECTIONS Translating Technologies: Dickens, Kafka and the Gothic; B.Murnane A Voyage through the Phantom Museum; D.Punter Index