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Volume 1: Enlightenment Gothic and Terror Gothic General Introduction;Volume introduction; Clara Reeve, The Champion of Virtue (1777); Mary Butt(later Sherwood), The Traditions (1795) Reeve's novel was republished in1778 as The Old English Baron. It was one of the earliest and most reprintedFemale Gothic novels, appealing to reform-minded readers in Britain duringthe transition from classical republicanism and Enlightenment socialcritique, through revolutionary protest, to the development of patrioticliberal ideology. Sherwood's The Traditions is an extravaganza of Gothicelements, written by a schoolgirl who attended the same school as Jane andCassandra Austen, who subscribed to the novel; Sherwood later became the mostprolific writer of didactic children's fiction, often adapting Gothicelements. Volume 2: Street Gothic - Female Gothic Chapbooks Anna LaetitiaBarbauld, Sir Bertrand's Adventures in a Ruinous Castle; Sophia Lee, TheRecess; The Midnight Assassin [Ann Radcliffe's The Italian]; The SouthernTower [Ann Radcliffe's A Sicilian Romance]; Sarah Wilkinson, The WhiteCottage of the Valley; or, The Mysterious Husband: An Original, InterestingRomance; The Mysteries of the Castle Del Carmo, Including the Memoirs ofLaura Woodland, the Interesting Penitent; The Spectres of Lord Oswald andLady Rosa, Including an Account of the Marchioness of Civetti; The Wife ofTwo Husbands; or, Fritz, the Outlaw; The White Pilgrim; or, Castle of Olival;The Castle Spectre; or, Family Horrors: A Gothic Story This volume presentsa range of cheap Gothic novelettes written by women or adapted fromfull-length Gothic novels by women; these chapbooks were designed andmarketed for lower-class and lower middle-class readers, often sold in thestreet by hawkers, and also kept in public houses for the entertainment ofdrinkers. Volume 3: Erotic Gothic Introduction; Charlotte Dacre, TheLibertine (1807) Like Dacre's earlier Zofloya, which influenced the youngradical poet Shelley, The Libertine successfully appealed to middle-classfascination for decadent upper-class libertinism and fear of lower-classblatant sexuality. Volumes 4 and 5: Historical Gothic Introduction; JanePorter, The Scottish Chiefs (1810) This pioneering historical romanceincorporates Gothic elements and was the ultimate source for the Mel Gibsonfilm Braveheart. The Scottish Chiefs preceded Walter Scott's better knownWaverley Novels, and was itself reprinted into the twentieth century as arepresentation of Romantic nationalism. Volume 6: Orientalist Gothic SydneyOwenson, Lady Morgan, The Missionary (1811) Owenson campaigned for hernative Ireland in such novels as The Wild Irish Girl (1806), (Pickering &Chatto, 2000), anticipating twentieth-century post-colonialism. In TheMissionary, set in India, she went on to address anxieties of empiregenerated by the Napoleonic wars and continued into the Victorian age, whenthe novel was republished.