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REPRESENTATIVE WORKS

Louisa May Alcott
"Taming a Tartar" (short story) 1867; published serially in the journal Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
 
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. 4 vols. (novels) 1818
 
William Beckford
★Vathek (novel) 1787
 
Ambrose Bierce
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (short stories) 1891
 
Elizabeth Bowen
Bowen's Court (nonfiction) 1942
The Demon Lover, and Other Stories (short stories) 1945
 
Edmund Burke
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (essay) 1757
Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event (essay) 1790
 
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1. Introduction
2. Representative Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. Edmund Burke (Essay Date 1757)
   2. Clara Reeve (Essay Date 1777)
   3. Sophia Lee (Novel Date 1786)
   4. Toni Morrison (Essay Date 1992)
4. Overviews
   1. Kathleen L. Spencer (Essay Date Spring 1992)
   2. David Punter (Essay Date 1996)
   3. Raphael Ingelbien (Essay Date Winter 2003)
5. Race And The Gothic
   1. Teresa A. Goddu (Essay Date 1997)
   2. Teresa Derrickson (Essay Date March 2001)
   3. Anne K. Mellor (Essay Date June 2002)
6. Women And The Gothic
   1. Elaine Showalter (Essay Date 1991)
   2. E. J. Clery (Essay Date 1992)
7. Further Reading