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