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- Dedication
- Preface: a history of the Gothic in thirteen chapters
- Acknowledgements
- List of illustrations
- 1. Origins of the Goths
- 2. The ascent to heaven
- 3. The iconoclasts
- 4. The revenge of the dead
- 5. Liberty Gothic
- 6. Gothic Whiggery
- 7. The sixties
- 8. The descent into hell
- 9. The poetics of blood
- 10. The Gothic dream
- 11. New England Goths
- 12. The ghost in the machine
- 13. First and last and always
- References
- Further reading
- Index
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- Dedication
- Preface: a history of the Gothic in thirteen chapters
- Acknowledgements
- List of illustrations
- 1. Origins of the Goths
- 2. The ascent to heaven
- 3. The iconoclasts
- 4. The revenge of the dead
- 5. Liberty Gothic
- 6. Gothic Whiggery
- 7. The sixties
- 8. The descent into hell
- 9. The poetics of blood
- 10. The Gothic dream
- 11. New England Goths
- 12. The ghost in the machine
- 13. First and last and always
- References
- Further reading
- Index