Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction

Diane Long Hoeveler was born in Chicago, IL and educated at the University of Illinois-Urbana. She is a Professor of English at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, where she has taught since 1987. She publishes on gothic, romantic, and women's literatures. Her most recent book, The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1780-1880, examines the representations of nuns, monks, the Inquisition, and ruined abbeys in dozens of British gothic texts. Her other books are Gothic Riffs (2010), Gothic Feminism (1998), and Romantic Androgyny (1990). She has coauthored Charlotte Bronte, and edited/coedited another 15 books.

An excellent, indispensible volume, which is impressive in its breadth, depth, and detail. It offers a wealth of material not only for anyone who teaches a course on Gothic traditions in Britain, Ireland, and the United States but also for anyone who teaches the nineteenth-century British novel in general, Sarah Orne Jewett, contemporary American film, or any number of other specific topics covered here. A substantial contribution to the field of Gothic studies. --Eugenia DeLamotte, Arizona State University