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Tables of Contents for Art of Darkness
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction Gothic Fiction's Family Romances
1
26
Part One Riding Nightmares; or, What's Novel about Gothic?
The Nightmare of History
Acting On and Acting Out
27
11
The House of Bluebeard
Gothic Engineering
38
11
Pope as Gothic ``Novelist''
Eloisa to Abelard
49
17
Symbolization and Its Discontents
66
14
The Nature of Gothic
80
7
Family Plots
87
48
Part Two Reading Nightmeres; or, The Two Gothic Traditions
Nightmere's Milk
The Male and Female Formulas
99
9
Male Gothic
Si(g) ns of the Fathers
108
7
Demon Lovers
The Monk
115
6
Why Are Vampires Afraid of Garlic?
Dracula
121
14
The Female Plot of Gothic Fiction
135
6
The Male as ``Other''
141
34
The Fiction of Feminine Desires
Not the Mirror but the Lamp
149
10
The Eighteenth-Century Psyche
The Mysteries of Udolpho
159
16
Part Three Writing in Gothic; or, Changing the Subject
Dispelling the Name of the Father
175
33
An ``I'' for an Eye
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
182
18
``Frost at Midnight''
(M)others and Other Strangers
200
8
Keats and the Names of the Mother
208
31
EPILOGUE The Mysteries of Enlightenment; or, Dr. Freud's Gothic Novel
239
18
APPENDIX A Inner and Outer Spaces
The Alien Trilogy
249
4
APPENDIX B Gothic Families
253
3
APPENDIX C The Female Plot of Gothic Fiction
256
1
Notes
257
28
Bibliography
285
16
Index
301