This book explores the development of the Gothic through the history of martial, political and literary conflict between Britain and France.

Introduction; 1. The mysterious author Horace Walpole; 2. The translator cloak'd: Sophia Lee, Clara Reeve and Charlotte Smith; 3. Versions of Gothic and terror; 4. The castle under threat: Ann Radcliffe's system and the romance of Europe; 5. 'The order disorder'd': French convents and British liberty; Conclusion: afterlives; Works cited.

Angela Wright is Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield. She is author of Gothic Fiction: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism (2007).