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Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Supernatural between Fact and Fiction, from the Gothic to the Fin de Siècle
Flavio Gregori, Elisa Bizzotto

SECTION 1. The Representation of the Wonderful and the Preternatural between the Gothic Novel and Fin-de-Siècle Literature

Foley Effects in the Gothic
Sound in The Castle of Otranto
John Bender

The Supernatural Subject of the Sublime in Burke and Radcliffe: A Reading of The Mysteries of Udolpho
Zak Watson

“Things that Make One Doubt if They be Mad or Sane”
Coping with the Monstrous in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Laura Giovannelli

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fin-de-Siècle Vampire
“Olalla” (1885) as ‘Aesthetic Fantastic’
Angelo Riccioni

Beyond the Boundaries of Realism
Monstrous Islands and Literary Hybrids at the Fin de Siècle in Conan Doyle’s, R. L. Stevenson’s and H. G. Wells’s Fiction
Julie Gay

Realism and the Supernatural in Ghost Stories of the Fin de Siècle
Nick Freeman

SECTION 2. Miscellany

“Our Filthy Liues in Swines are Shewd”: Deformed Pigs, Religious Disquiet and Propaganda in Elizabethan England
Luca Baratta

Literary Transmigration
George Eliot, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the Spirit of Transatlantic Exchange
Rebecca Soares