Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Women, novel-writing, and culture in the later eighteenth century
  • pt. 1. Family values: Brotherly love in David Simple. Female abjection in A simple story. Female gothic (1): friends and mothers
  • pt. 2. Love and friendship: Sisterly love in Sense and sensibility. "Romantic friendship" in Millenium Hall. Wollstonecraft and the law of desire
  • pt. 3. Erotic isolation: Self-love in The female Quixote: romancing the ego. "Defects and deformity" in Camilla. The pleasures of victimization in The romance of the forest. Afterword : Female gothic (2): demonic love.