Byron Glennis, Punter David (eds.) Spectral Readings. Towards a Gothic Geography

Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. — x, 256 p. — ISBN 978-1-349-40226-7.These essays explore some of the most significant current issues concerning the terrain of the Gothic perspective, offering a variety of possible answers to the crucial question: What is Gothic? The collection begins by addressing general issues about the locations and structure of Gothic; this is followed by various considerations of Gothic as a specific historical phenomenon, linked with specific aspects of British, American, and European society; and, finally, by an exploration of Gothic writing during recent decades.List of figures.
Notes on contributors.
Introduction: of apparitions. David Punter.
Theory: regions of the Gothic.
The Gothic production of the unconscious.Fred Botting.
Ceremonial Gothic. David Punter.
The nurture of the Gothic, or, how can a text be both popular and subversive? William Veeder.
Heartlands: the British nineteenth century.
Lost cities: London’s apocalypse. Alexandra Warwick.
Hell is a city: symbolic systems and epistemological scepticism in The City of Dreadful Night. David Seed.
‘A pestilence which walketh in darkness’: diagnosing the Victorian vampire. Robert Mighall.
America: states of instability.
American Gothic landscapes: the New World to Vietnam. Jeannette Idiart and Jennifer Schulz.
Gothic numbers in the new republic: The Federalist No. 10 and its spectral factions. Helen F. Thompson.
Spectres of abjection: the queer subject of James’s ‘The Jolly Corner’. Eric Savoy.
Europe: dimensions of the body.
The Gothic and the ‘Otherings’ of ascendant culture: the original Phantom of the Opera. Jerrold E. Hogle.
Heiner Müller’s Medea: towards a paradigm for the contemporary Gothic anatomy. Barnard Turner.
Contemporary (re)versions.
Deaths in Venice: Daphne du Maurier’s ‘Don’t Look Now’. Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik.
Dr McGrath’s disease: radical pathology in Patrick McGrath’s neo-Gothicism. Christine Ferguson.
Index.