Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination

Efterpi Mitsi is Professor in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.Anna Despotopoulou is Professor in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.Stamatina Dimakopoulou is Assistant Professor in American Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.Emmanouil Aretoulakis is tenured Associate Lecturer in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

• Chapter 1. Introduction, Efterpi Mitsi, Anna Despotopoulou, Stamatina Dimakopoulou, Emmanouil Aretoulakis.- Chapter 2. Amongst the Ruins of a European Gothic Phantasmagoria in Athens, Maria Vara.- Chapter 3. Dickens’s Animate Ruins, Michael Hollington.- Chapter 4. The Indifference of Fragments: Untimely Ruin in Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Claire Potter.- Chapter 5. Rising from Ruins: Isabel Archer at the Roman Campagna, Chryssa Marinou.- Chapter 6. Untimely Returns: Shoring Fragments against Ruins in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, Sheila Teahan.- Chapter 7. “There must be no ruins”: Ruinophobia and Urban Morphology in Turn-of-the-Century New York, Theodora Tsimpouki.- Chapter 8. “Ruins True Refuge”: Beckett and Pinter, David Tucker.- Chapter 9. Out of the Ruins of Dresden: Destructive Plasticity in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, Giorgos Giannakopoulos.- Chapter 10. Melancholia and the Bomb: Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton and the Fragmented Atomic Psyche, Adam Beardsworth.- Chapter 11. The Fractured World of Leonard Cohen, Jeffrey L. Spear.- Chapter 12. Springtime for Defaults: The Producers as the Ruin of History and the Triumph of Hystery, Christina Dokou.- Chapter 13. In the Absence of Ruins: The “Non-Sites of Memory” in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Daniel Mendelsohn’s Lost: The Search for Six of Six Million, Angeliki Tseti.- Chapter 14. Destruction Preservation, or the Edifying Ruin in Benjamin and Brecht, Vassiliki Kolocotroni.- Chapter 15. Thinking Like a Ruin, Carl Lavery and Simon Murray.- Chapter 16. Contemporary Ruins, Fragments of the Lives of Others, Critical Intimacies in and out of Comfort Zones, Apostolos Lampropoulos.- Chapter 17: Afterword: The Consolations of Ruins: From the Acropolis to Epidaurus, Jyotsna Singh.