Translation in distress : cultural misappropriation and the construction of the Gothic / Terry Hale -- European disruptions of the idealized woman : Matthew Lewis's The monk and the Marquis de Sade's La nouvelle Justine / Angela Wright -- Diderot and Maturin : enlightenment, automata, and the theatre of terror / Victor Sage -- Verging on the Gothic : Melmoth's journey to France / Catherine Lanone -- Europhobia: the Catholic other in Horace Walpole and Charles Maturin / Robert Miles -- European Gothic and nineteenth-century Russian literature / Neil Cornwell -- The robbers and the police : British romantic drama and the Gothic treacheries of Coleridge's Remorse / Peter Mortensen -- Translating Mary Shelly's Valperga into English : historical romance, biography or Gothic fiction? / John Williams -- 'Hallelujah to your dying screams of torture' : representations of ritual violence in English and Spanish romanticism / Joan Curbet -- Potocki's Gothic arabesque : embedded narrative and the treatment of boundaries in The manuscript found in Saragossa (1797-1815) / Ahlam Alaki -- The Gothic crosses the Channel : abjection and revelation in Le fantãome de l'opera / Jerrold E. Hogle -- 'A detour of filthiness' : French fiction and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood / Avril Horner.