The extensive historical appendices provide material on the novel’s contemporary reception, the Gothic novel, sensibility and sentiment, and the aesthetics of the sublime and picturesque.
Shelley King is Professor Emerita of English at Queen’s University.
John B. Pierce is Professor of English at Queen’s University. They are the editors of the Broadview Editions of Amelia Opie’s The Father and Daughter and The Dangers of Coquetry and of George McDonald’s The Princess and the Goblin and Other Fairy Tales.