Spectral Readings: Towards a Gothic Geography

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: of apparitions....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
The Gothic production of the unconscious....Pages 11-36
Ceremonial Gothic....Pages 37-53
The nurture of the Gothic; or, how can a text be both popular and subversive?....Pages 54-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Lost cities: London’s apocalypse....Pages 73-87
Hell is a city: symbolic systems and epistemological scepticism in The City of Dreadful Night....Pages 88-107
‘A pestilence which walketh in darkness’: diagnosing the Victorian vampire....Pages 108-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
American Gothic landscapes: the New World to Vietnam....Pages 127-139
Gothic numbers in the new republic: The Federalist No. 10 and its spectral factions....Pages 140-160
Spectres of abjection: the queer subject of James’s ‘The Jolly Corner’....Pages 161-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
The Gothic and the ‘Otherings’ of ascendant culture: the original Phantom of the Opera....Pages 177-201
Heiner Müller’s Medea: towards a paradigm for the contemporary Gothic anatomy....Pages 202-216
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Deaths in Venice: Daphne du Maurier’s ‘Don’t Look Now’....Pages 219-232
Dr McGrath’s disease: radical pathology in Patrick McGrath’s neo-Gothicism....Pages 233-243
Back Matter....Pages 245-256