Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Gothic: Towards a Definition -- Chapter One: Gothic Revenants: A Tale of Three Hamlets -- Chapter Two: Putting the Gothic In: Clarissa, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and The Time Machine -- Chapter Three: Taking the Gothic Out: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, The Woman in White, and Lady Audley's Secret -- Chapter Four: Fragmenting the Gothic -- Jane Eyre and Dracula -- Chapter Five: Gothic and the Family: The Mummy Returns, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.