Gothic Hauntings Melancholy Crypts and Textual Ghosts

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

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Christine Berthin

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Christine Berthin

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This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Berthin, Christine, 1960– Gothic hauntings : melancholy crypts and textual ghosts / Christine Berthin. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–230–23787–2 (alk. paper) 1. Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English—History and criticism. 2. Horror tales, English—History and criticism. 3. Ghosts in literature. 4. Metaphor in literature. 5. Symbolism in literature. 6. Psychoanalysis in literature. 7. Psychoanalysis and literature. I. Title. PR830.T3B47 2010 823'.0872909—dc22 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham and Eastbourne

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