Table of Contents:
  • 1. Early Gothic reading
  • Infant literature
  • Thomas de Quincey and Charles de Moor
  • Teenage Gothic reading
  • 2. Teutophilia
  • Oxford, van Haren and Schwartzburg
  • J. H. Bohte
  • 3. Translations from the German
  • Gillies's German stories
  • De Quincey's translations
  • The sport of fortune (1821)
  • The fatal Marksman (1823)
  • Mr. Schnackenberger, The dice, The King of Hayti (1823) ; The incognito, The defier of ghosts (1824)
  • The love-charm (1825)
  • 4. De Quincey and Gothic
  • Gothic
  • De Quincey's Gothic
  • De Quincey and The Devil's elixir
  • 5. Dream-texts
  • Confessions of an English opium-eater (1822)
  • Suspira de Profundis (1845-)
  • The English mail-coach (1849)
  • 6. Essays
  • Historico-critical inquiry into the origin of the Rosicrucians (1824) and Secret societies (1847)
  • On murder considered as one of the fine arts (1827)
  • 7. Rifacimenti
  • De Quincey, Gillies and rifacimento
  • The somnambulist (1824)
  • Niels Klim's Journey to the world under-ground (1822-28)
  • Walladmor (1825)
  • The German Walladmor
  • De Quincey's view of the German Walladmor
  • The German Walladmor as Gothic novel
  • De Quincey's Walladmor (1825)
  • Walladmor as Gothic novel
  • Schloss Avalon (1827)
  • The Spanish military nun (1847-54)
  • 8. Fictions
  • The stranger's grave (1823)
  • The peasant of Portugal (1827) and The Cacçadore (1828)
  • Klosterheim (1832)
  • The household wreck (1838)
  • The avenger (1838)
  • 9. De Quincey and Kafka.