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Gothic Hauntings

Melancholy Crypts and Textual Ghosts

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  • © 2010

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  1. Christine Berthin
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Christine Berthin
    Pages 1-7

  3. Transgenerational Haunting: The Subject as Other

    • Christine Berthin
    Pages 8-32

  4. Discourse and Its Other: The Figural and the Real

    • Christine Berthin
    Pages 33-56

  5. Gothic as Poetics

    • Christine Berthin
    Pages 57-88

  6. The Melancholy Crypt of Frankenstein

    • Christine Berthin
    Pages 89-107

  7. Secretions and Secretaries: The Secret of Dracula

    • Christine Berthin
    Pages 108-132

  8. The Raising of the Dead: Art and Melancholy

    • Christine Berthin
    Pages 133-155

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 156-188
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What is buried in the crypts of the Gothic? Building on psychoanalytic research on haunting, cryptonymy and melancholy, as well as on French philosophies of language, this book explores how haunting is not just a Gothic narrative device but the symptom of an impossibility of representation and of an irreparable loss at the heart of language.

About the author

CHRISTINE BERTHIN is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Paris Ouest-Nanterre, France. She has taught Gothic, and Romantic fiction at UCSC and at the University of Orléans. She has also published extensively on P. B. Shelley, Mary Shelley, Keats and the British Gothic tradition.

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