To better understand and contextualise the twilight of the Gothic genre during the 1920s and 1830s, The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade examines the disreputable aspects of the Gothic trade from its horrid bluebooks to the desperate hack writers who created the short tales of terror. From the Gothic publishers to the circulating libraries, this study explores the conflict between the canon and the twilight, and between the disreputable and the moral.
List of Tables Acknowledgements Preface Literary Rubbish The Circulating Library Literary Mushrooms: The Gothic Bluebook Ghosts, Spectres and Phantoms: Recycling the Gothic in Periodicals and Anthologies Morality and Blood: William Child Green The Romance of Real Life: Sarah Wilkinson The Monster of Morality: Mary Shelley Appendix One: Gothic Novels, 1800-1834 Appendix Two: Gothic Bluebooks 1799-1835 Appendix Three: Gothic Tales 1800-1834 Bibliography Index
