ABSTRACT
Haunted Europe offers the first comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe, tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel, to the eve of Brexit, and the symbolic recalibration of the UK’s relationship to mainland Europe.
By focusing on the development of the relationship between Britain and Ireland and continental Europe over more than two-hundred years, this collection marks an important departure from standard literary critical narratives, which have tended to focus on a narrow time-period and have missed continuities and discontinuities in our ongoing relationship with the mainland.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 3|21 pages
“Such strains as speak no mortal means”
Melusine Voices in Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho and Landon’s “The Fairy of the Fountains”
chapter 4|17 pages
Slavery as a National Crime
Defining Britishness in Encounters with the Flying Dutchman
chapter 6|19 pages
Haunted Hotels and Murder Inns
Travelers’ Tales from Europe and the Gothic Short Story from the 1820s to the 1940s
chapter 10|14 pages
“Look into the Dark”
A Ghost Story for Christmas on the Continent: An Interview with Leslie Megahey, Director of Schalcken the Painter
chapter 11|19 pages
A Tale of Two Carmillas
The Representation of Styria in Le Fanu’s “Carmilla” and Its Web Series Adaptation
chapter 12|17 pages
Civilization versus “the Barbarian Turk”
Imperial Gothic and Western Self-Definition in Dracula Narratives from Fin-de-Siècle to the Post-9/11 World
