Crowe is increasingly being recognised as an important and influential figure in the literary and Spiritualist circles of the nineteenth century. This monograph offers a reassessment of her major works, arguing that her writing is prescient.

Ruth Heholt is senior lecturer in English at Falmouth University, UK.

Introduction

Part One: From Newgate to Sensation

Chapter One: The Newgate Novel, Crime, and Detection in Catherine Crowe's Early Fiction

Chapter Two: Forays into Sensation

Part Two: Realism and Politics

Chapter Three: Class, Poverty, and Realism

Chapter Four: Radical Social Politics

Part Three: Gender

Chapter Five: Women's Position and Women's Rights

Chapter Six: Crowe's Men

Part Four: Supernature and the Gothic

Chapter Seven: Ghosts of the Old and New School

Chapter Eight: The Gothic Short Stories