Gothic Hauntology

This book provides a theoretically informed account of Gothic Hauntology. It is distinctive foremost in two ways. It shows hauntology at work in modern as well as older gothic narratives and it has a unique focus on everyday gothic as well as everyday hauntology. The chapters perform a historical circle going from Munro to Poe and then back again, offering novel readings of works by well-known authors that are contextualized under the umbrella of the theme. Anchored in a well-known topic and genre, but with a specific phenomenological framework, this book will be of interest to both students and more advanced scholars.

Anchored in a well-known topic and genre with a phenomenological approach that offers novel readings of renowned primary material Gives a good overview of what one can expect hauntology to 'do' within the genre of the gothic Overlaps with other contemporary fields such as ecocriticism, trauma studies, and memory studies

Autorentext

Joakim Wrethed is Associate Professor at Stockholm University, Sweden. He has hitherto mainly worked in Irish Studies-especially on John Banville-but he has also published on the gothic genre.

Inhalt

1.Introduction: Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee! Loss;Guilt;The Uncanny;Derridean Hauntology;Recent Hauntology Studies;Outline of the chapters.- 2. Penelope was not a phantom: Everyday Hauntology in Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood:Margaret Atwood, Death by LandscapeSurfacing.- 3. His eye spoke less than his lip: Hauntology, Vampires and the Trace of the Animal in John Polidori's The Vampyre, John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let the Right One In, Octavia E. Butler's Fledgling and Guillermo del Toro's Cronos.;Let the Right One In;Fledgling;Cronos.- 4. Nothing is but what is not: Spectral Temporality and Hauntology in Selected Works by Edgar Allan Poe;The Tell-Tale Heart;The Imp of the Perverse;The Black Cat;The Gold Bug".- 5. [T]he grey pool and its blank haunted edge: The Hauntology of Indeterminacy in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw.- 6. Light is dark and dark is light: H. P. Lovecraft and Hauntology as Epistemological Desire.- The Lurking Fear;The Music of Erich Zann;The Haunter of the Dark;The Believing Atheist.- 7. What she had seen was final: Everyday Hauntology, the Threat of Male Violence and the Power of Fiction in Alice Munro's Free Radicals, Runaway and Passion;Free Radicals;Runaway;Passion.- 8. Concluding Remarks: I can feel my lost child surfacing within me. <p