Offers an introduction to British Gothic literature. This book examines works by Gothic authors such as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin and Mary Shelley against the backdrop of eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century British social and political history.

Carol Margaret Davison is Full Professor and Department Head at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and the Director of the sickly taper website, the world's largest and most comprehensive website devoted to Gothic bibliography (www.thesicklytaper.com). A former Canada-U.S. Fulbright scholar and author of Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature (Palgrave Macmillan 2004), she has recently completed a co-edited collection, Scottish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion, with Dr. Monica Germanà (forthcoming in 2016) and edited The Gothic