"A focused examination of Mary Robinson's deployment of the Gothic in a selection of her poetry and prose fiction. Features accounts of how Robinson's Gothic reworks other major Gothic writers"--

A Note on Texts; 1. A Gothic Life; 2. The Un-grounded Grounds of the Walpolean Gothic; 3. The Argument; 4. The Gothic Image of the Other; 5. The Gothic Mind; 6. The Gothic Performance of Gender; 7. The Gothic in Lyrical Tales; 8. Coda; References.