1. An introduction to folklore and the fantastic in nineteenth-century British literature
2. Victorian literary fairy tales : their folklore and function
3. Victorian fairy-tale fantasies : MacDonald's Fairyland and Barrie's Neverland
4. MacDonald's Lilith and Phantastes : in pursuit of the soul in Fairyland
5. James Hogg's use of legend : folk metaphysics and narrative authority
6. Ghosts, "grand ladies," "the gentry," and "good neighbors" : folkloric representations of the spirit world's intersection with class and racial tensions in Le Fanu
7. Robert Louis Stevenson : folklore and imperialism
8. William Carleton and William Sharp : the Celtic Renaissance and fantastic folklore
9. Conclusion : second sight.