Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; A note on the text; Introduction: Romanticism's 'pageantry of fear'; 1. Gothic, reception and production; 2. Gothic and its contexts; 3. 'Gross and violent stimulants': producing Lyrical Ballads 1798 and 1800; 4. National supernaturalism: Joanna Baillie, Germany, and the Gothic drama; 5. 'To foist thy stale romance': Scott, antiquarianism, and authorship; Notes; Index.

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'... this is a lucid and persuasive work that brings real illumination to the murky origins of the Romantic ideology.' The Nineteenth Century 'His careful scholarship and clear line of argument will undoubtedly inform continuing work on the subject.' Romanticism on the Net '... Gamer's study is a highly interesting and thought-provoking piece of scholarship.' Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik