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Social Reform in Gothic Writing provides a transatlantic view of the politically transformative power that Gothic texts effected during the Revolutionary era (1764-1834) through providing fresh readings of canonical and non-canonical writing in a wide variety of genres.

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1. Introduction: Fantastic Forms of Change 2. Emergent Forms: Horace Walpole, Politics, and the Eighteenth-Century Reader 3. A Castle of One´s Own: The Architecture of Emerging Feminism 4. Transmuting the Baser Metals: The Post-Revolutionary Audience, Political Economy, and Gothic Forms in Godwin´s St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 5. ´Schemes of Reformation´: Institutionalized Healthcare in Charles Brockden Brown´s Arthur Mervyn 6. Re-forming Genres: Negotiating Slavery in the Works of Matthew Lewis Bibliography Index

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"Ledoux´s examination of gothic writing in relation to social reform ... demonstrate its claims with evidence from a wide array of historical documents, and it succeeds in mounting a convincing argument about the ´political activism´ of the early gothic ... . the study is well written and rigorous, and it joins a recent groundswell of scholarship on the political and cultural work of gothic and horror fiction from the eighteenth century to the present." (Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 28 (3), Spring, 2016)

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Ellen Malenas Ledoux is Assistant Professor and Director of the Women´s and Gender Studies Program at Rutgers University, Camden, USA. She specializes in Romanticism, the Gothic, and transatlantic writers of the Revolutionary period. She has published articles in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture and Women´s Writing.

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