Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Introduction
  • Romantic Poets and Gothic Culture
  • Radical Gothic: Politics and Antiquarianism in Salisbury Plain (1794)
  • “By Gothic Virtue Won”: Romantic Poets Fighting the Peninsular War
  • Wordsworth’s Gothic Education
  • Interchapter. The Staring Nation
  • Futures Past: Temporalization and Tradition in “Michael” (1800)
  • The Style Historic: The Gothic Line from Wordsworth to Hardy
  • Conclusion. Gothic and Theory: The Reflecting Word.