Table of Contents

Introduction: A history of the Gothic in thirteen chapters 1: Origins of the Goths 2: The ascent to heaven 3: The iconoclasts 4: The revenge of the dead 5: Liberty gothic 6: Gothic whiggery 7: The Sixties 8: The descent into hell 9: The poetics of blood 10: The gothic dream 11: New England goths 12: Goths at the movies 13: First and last and always

About the Author

Professor Nick Groom is Chair in English at the University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, and Director of ECLIPSE: the Exeter Centre for Literatures of Identity, Place, and Sustainability. He has published widely for both academic and popular readerships, and is the author and editor of many books, most recently The Forger's Shadow (2002), Thomas Chatterton: Selected Poetry (2003), and The Union Jack (2006).