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.
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 Polidoris The Vampyre, John
Ajvide Lindqvists Let the Right One In, Octavia E. Butlers Fledgling and
Guillermo del Toros 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 Jamess 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 Munros Free Radicals, Runaway and Passion;Free
Radicals;Runaway;Passion.-
8. Concluding Remarks: I can feel my lost
child surfacing within me.
Joakim Wrethed is Associate Professor at Stockholm University, Sweden. He has hitherto mainly worked in Irish Studiesespecially on John Banvillebut he has also published on the gothic genre.
