Introduction : the Gothic Enlightenment -- The American transformation of the British individual -- Captivity, incorporation, and the politics of going native -- A mind for the Gothic : common sense and the problem of local culture -- Population and the limits of civil society in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet letter -- Slavery and Gothic form: writing race as the bio-novel.
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