Suicide and the Gothic

William Hughes is Professor of Literature in English at the University of Macau, China Andrew Smith is Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield -- .

Introduction: the most Gothic of acts – suicide in generic context
William Hughes and Andrew Smith
1 Scottish revenants: Caledonian fatality in Thomas Percy’s Reliques
Frank Ferguson and Danni Glover
2 Male and female Werthers: Romanticism and Gothic suicide
Lisa Vargo
3 ‘The supposed incipiency of mental disease’: guilt, regret and suicide in three ghost stories by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
William Hughes
4 ‘The body of a self-destroyer’: suicide and the self in the fin de siècle Gothic
Andrew Smith
5 ‘To be mistress of her own fate’: suicide as control and contagion in the works of Richard Marsh
Graeme Pedlingham
6 Suicide as Justice? The self-destroying Gothic villain in Pauline Hopkins’ Of One Blood
Bridget M. Marshall
7 Gothic influences: darkness and suicide in the work of Patricia Highsmith
Fiona Peters
8 Better not to have been: Thomas Ligotti and the ‘Suicide’ of the human race
Xavier Aldana Reyes and Rachid M’Rabty
9 Vampire suicide
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
10 Under the dying sun: suicide and the Gothic in modern Japanese literature and culture
Katarzyna Ancuta
11 ‘I Will Abandon This Body and Take to the Air’: the suicide at the heart of Dear Esther
Dawn Stobbart -- .