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Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Defining the Female Gothic; D.Wallace & A.Smith Female Gothic and the Institutionalisation of Gothic Studies; L.Fitzgerald ‘The haunting idea’: female Gothic metaphors and feminist theory; D.Wallace ‘Mother Radcliff’: Ann Radcliffe and the Female Gothic; R.Miles Disturbing the Female Gothic: An Excavation of the Northanger Novels; A.Wright Bleeding Nuns: A Genealogy of the Female Grotesque; A.Milbank From Bluebeard’s Bloody Chamber to Demonic Stigmatic; M.Mulvey-Roberts Keeping it in the Family: Incest and the Female Gothic Plot in du Maurier and Murdoch; A.Horner & S.Zlosnik ‘I Don’t Want to be a [White] Girl’: Gender, Race and Resistance in the Southern Gothic; M.Miller Children of the night: Shirley Jackson’s Domestic Female Gothic; A.Smith Others, Monsters, Ghosts: Representations of the Female Gothic Body in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Love ; A.Heise-von der Lippe ‘Unhomely moments’: Reading and Writing Nation in Welsh Female Gothic; K.Bohata Monstrous Regiments of Women and Brides of Frankenstein: Gendered Body Politics in Scottish Female Gothic Fiction; C.M.Davison Index

DIANA WALLACE is Reader in English at the University of Glamorgan, UK. She is the author of 
The Woman’s Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000 (2005) and
Sisters and Rivals in British Women’s Fiction, 1914-39 (2000), and co-editor (with Andrew Smith) of a special edition of
Gothic Studies on ‘The Female Gothic’ (2004). 

ANDREW SMITH is Professor of English Studies at the University of Glamorgan, UK where he is Co-Director of the Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science (RCLAS). Published books include
Gothic Literature (2007),
Victorian Demons (2004), and
Gothic Radicalism (2000). He edits, with Benjamin F. Fisher, the series ‘Gothic Literary Studies’, for the University of Wales Press.