Intro; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: A Dreadful Start; Bibliography; Part I Treating Fear: Medicine, Illness, Therapy; Dreadful Health: Fear and 'Sowle-hele' in The Prickynge of Love; Fear for the Soul; A Dreadful Passion; Bibliography; Without a Cause: Fear in the Anatomy of Melancholy; Classifying Fear; The Physiology of Fear and Melancholy; Celebrating Fear; Bibliography; 'The Gloom of Anxiety': Fear in the Long Eighteenth Century; Bibliography; Dreadful: Aesthetic Fear in Victorian Reading; Aesthetic Fear in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century

Gothic: Fictional TerrorsAfter Burke and Hume: Fear and Aesthetics in the Mid-Century; Sensation: Shockingly Normal; Measuring Aesthetic Affect in the Twenty-First Century; Bibliography; 'Frightened and Rather Feverish': The Fear of Pain in Childbirth; Bibliography; Part II Writing Fear: Rhetoric, Passion, Literature; Fresh Terror, New Horror: Fear and the Unfamiliar in the Old English Exodus; Bibliography; Damned Above Ground: Dreadful Despair in Elizabethan and Stuart Literature; The Figure of Despaire; Poeni Damni; Spectacles of Despair; Reading Despair; Bibliography

Fear, Phobia and the Victorian PsycheInexplicable Fear; Bibliography; The Mass Dread of Quietude and the British Anti-Noise Crusade 1919-1939; Mass Culture and the Problem of Noise; Modern Noise and the English Countryside; 'The Quiet Mind'; Noisy, Distracting Radios, Motorcars and Aeroplanes; Quietly Confident; Bibliography; The Fearful Body in Contemporary Medical Television Drama and Medical Case Reports; Medical Case Narratives on Page and Screen; Representing the (Multiple) Body; The Fearful Body, Multiplied; Bibliography; Ending on a Note of Fear; Bibliography; Index