Gothic hauntings

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), EnglishPsychoanalysis and literatureSymbolism in literatureHistory and criticismGhosts in literatureEnglish Horror talesPsychoanalysis in literatureMetaphor in literature

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.

For young readers

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