Gothic Hauntings: Melancholy Crypts and Textual Ghosts

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
The Castle of Otranto as "Nec-romance"......Page 19
Phantomatic transmissions: Abraham and Torok and the Gothic......Page 29
Enigmatic signifiers and Seduction (Laplanche): "Intersign" by Villiers de L'Isle Adam......Page 34
The Real in language......Page 44
Corporeality in language......Page 50
Onuphrius and literal language......Page 54
Non-discursive forces at work in discourse: "The Figural" (Lyotard)......Page 56
The "Phonotext" (Garret Stewart) and the reading body......Page 63
3 Gothic as Poetics......Page 68
Theories of the fantastic: Rereading Todorov......Page 69
The Gothic and the paternal narrative......Page 73
Anachrony and analepsis......Page 78
The question of origin......Page 81
The Gothic as anti-discourse......Page 84
Broken words and stranded fragments of language: The Mysteries of Udolpho and The Monk......Page 86
Catachresis and death in language......Page 87
The Bleeding Nun......Page 89
Dechronology and family secrets......Page 91
An uncanny reading of The Monk......Page 92
A Gothic reading: Abjection (Kristeva)......Page 93
The Gothic and melancholy......Page 98
4 The Melancholy Crypt of Frankenstein......Page 100
A fantasy of incorporation: The melancholic crypt......Page 103
A narrative in excess: Victor ventriloquizes his mother's secret......Page 111
Clandestination and telepathy......Page 115
5 Secretions and Secretaries: The Secret of Dracula......Page 119
Buzzing noises and the spells of the modern world: From "transcript" to "transcrypt"......Page 122
"Look with thine ears" (King Lear): Dracula's Gothic imperative......Page 133
Secret transmissions......Page 136
Quincey Harker......Page 142
6 The Raising of the Dead: Art and Melancholy......Page 144
Photography and magic restoration: Barthes's Camera Lucida......Page 145
Photography and the fantasy of pure referentiality......Page 146
The punctum......Page 148
The-Proof-according-to-Saint-Thomas-seeking-to-touch-the-resurrected-Christ......Page 150
Art and elegy: Affect in language or "the Semiotic Agitation within the Symbolic" (Kristeva)......Page 158
To the lighthouse of fiction......Page 161
"So much depends, she thought, upon distance": Lily's hallucination......Page 164
Notes......Page 167
Bibliography and Works Cited......Page 185
D......Page 194
I......Page 195
M......Page 196
R......Page 197
V......Page 198
Z......Page 199