Spectral Readings

FRED BOTTING Lecturer in Literary Theory, University of LancasterCHRISTINE FERGUSON Doctoral student in English, Tulane University, New OrleansJERROLD E. HOGLE Professor of English, University Distinguished Professor, and Chair of the Faculty at the University of ArizonaAVRIL HORNER Senior Lecturer in English and Associate Director of the European Studies Research Institute, University of SalfordJEANNETTE IDIART University of WashingtonJENNIFER SCHULZ University of WashingtonROBERT MIGHALL Commissioning Editor, London PublisherERIC SAVOY Professor of American Literature, University of CalgaryDAVID SEED Reader in English Studies, University of LiverpoolHELEN F. THOMPSON Assistant Professor, Arizona State UniversityBARNARD TURNER Lecturer in Modern Literature, National University of SingaporeWILLIAM VEEDER Professor of English, University of ChicagoALEXANDRA WARWICK Lecturer in English, University of WestminsterSUE ZLOSNIK Head of English, Liverpool Hope University

• Notes on the Contributors Introduction: D.Punter PART ONE: THEORY: REGIONS OF THE GOTHIC The Gothic Production of the Unconscious; F.Botting Ceremonial Gothic; D.Puntert The Nurture of the Gothic, or, How Can a Text be Both Popular and Subversive?; W.Veeder PART TWO: HEARTLANDS: THE BRITISH NINETEENTH CENTURY Lost Cities: London's Apocalypse; A.Warwick Hell is a City: Symbolic Systems and Epistemological Scepticism in The City of Dreadful Night ; D.Seed 'A Pestilence Which Walketh in Darkness': Diagnosing the Victorian Vampire; R.Mighall PART THREE: AMERICA: STATES OF INSTABILITY American Gothic Landscapes: The New World to Vietnam; J.Idiart & J.Schulz Gothic Numbers in the New Republic: The Federalist No. 10 and its Spectral Factions; H.F. Thompson Spectres of Abjection: The Queer Subject of James's 'The Jolly Corner'; E.Savoy PART FOUR: EUROPE: DIMENSIONS OF THE BODY The Gothic and 'Otherings' of Ascendant Culture: The Original Phantom of the Opera ; J.Hogle Heiner Müller's Medea: Towards a Paradigm for the Contemporary Gothic Anatomy; B.Turner PART FIVE: (RE)VERSIONS Deaths in Venice: Daphne du Maurier's 'Don't Look Now'; A.Horner & S.Zlosnik Dr McGrath's Disease: Radical Pathology in Patrick McGrath's Neo-Gothicism; C.Ferguson Index