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Tables of Contents for Spectral Readings
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures
vii
Notes on contributors
viii
Introduction: of apparitions
1
10
David Punter
Part I Theory: regions of the Gothic
The Gothic production of the unconscious
11
26
Fred Botting
Ceremonial Gothic
37
17
David Punter
The nurture of the Gothic, or, how can a text be both popular and subversive?
54
19
William Veeder
Part II Heartlands: the British nineteenth century
Lost cities: London's apocalypse
73
15
Alexandra Warwick
Hell is a city: symbolic systems and epistemological scepticism in The City of Dreadful Night
88
20
David Seed
`A pestilence which walketh in darkness': diagnosing the Victorian vampire
108
19
Robert Mighall
Part III America: states of instability
American Gothic landscapes: the New World to Vietnam
127
13
Jeannette Idiart
Jennifer Schulz
Gothic numbers in the new republic: The Federalist No. 10 and its spectral factions
140
21
Helen F. Thompson
Spectres of abjection: the queer subject of James's `The Jolly Corner'
161
16
Eric Savoy
Part IV Europe: dimensions of the body
The Gothic and the `Otherings' of ascendant culture: the original Phantom of the Opera
177
25
Jerrold E. Hogle
Heiner Muller's Medea: towards a paradigm for the contemporary Gothic anatomy
202
17
Barnard Turner
Part V Contemporary (re)versions
Deaths in Venice: Daphne du Maurier's `Don't Look Now'
219
14
Avril Horner
Sue Zlosnik
Dr McGrath's disease: radical pathology in Patrick McGrath's neo-Gothicism
233
12
Christine Ferguson
Index
245