Gothic Hauntings: Melancholy Crypts and Textual Ghosts
Book Details
Author(s)
Christine Berthin
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN / ASIN
0230237878
ISBN-13
9780230237872
Availability
In stock. Usually ships within 2 to 3 days.
Sales Rank
#1,998,841
Category
Literary Criticism
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
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.
