Chapter 1 Introduction: Scorpions in the Mind

Chapter 2 Vigilia and the Science of the Mind in William Godwin’s Caleb Williams and Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly, or Memoirs of a Sleepwalker

Chapter 4 The Stings of Love: Erotomania and Nymphomania in John Keats’s Isabella, or the Pot of Basil and Charlotte Dacre’s The Passions

Chapter 5 Revolutiana and the Sublime in George Gleig’s Subaltern , Lord Byron’s Siege of Corinth , and Joanna Baillie’s Count Basil

Chapter 6 Ideality and Art in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “Berenice” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”

Chapter 7 Coda: From Scorpions to Spiders in A.S. Byatt’s Possession