Haunted Europe offers the first comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe, tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel, to the eve of Brexit, and the symbolic recalibration of the UK's relationship to mainland Europe.
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Introduction
1. 'Seeing Ghosts: the Dark Side of the Enlightenment'
2. '"God! 'Tis the Bleeding Nun!": Religion, Sexuality and the European Other in Matthew Lewis's The Monk (1796)'
3. 'Haunting at sea: defining Britishness in encounters with the Flying Dutchman'
4. 'Walking Abroad: Strange Exhibitions in M. R. James'
5. 'Haunted Hotels'
6. 'Gothic battlefields: Imagining the European theatre of war before and after World War I'
7. 'Daphne DuMaurier's Gothic Italy'
8. 'The island seemed to answer so many problems': Robert Aickman and the English Abroad
9. "Dennis Wheatley's Satanic Continent in Fiction and Film"
10. 'This Lonely and Primitive Place:' The Visualization of Eastern Europe in the Web Series, Carmilla'
11. 'Losing Our Heads (European Edition)'
12. 'Haunted by the Ottomans: Imperial Gothic and the Image of 'the Barbar-Turk' in Dracula Narratives'
13. An Interview with Leslie Megahey on the BBC ghost-film, Schalcken the Painter (1979)