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Gothic Hauntings: Melancholy Crypts and Textual Ghosts 2010th Edition
Author(s): Christine Berthin (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 9 April 2010
- Edition: 2010th
- Language: English
- Print length: 197 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230237878
- ISBN-13: 9780230237872
Book 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.
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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.
