Research Catalog

Title

Haunted landscapes : super-nature and the environment / edited by Ruth Heholt and Niamh Downing.

Publication

London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Heholt, Ruth
• Downing, Niamh

Description

vi, 249 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Haunted Landscapes" offers a fresh and innovative approach to contemporary debates about landscape and the supernatural. Landscapes are often uncanny spaces embroiled in the past; associated with absence, memory and nostalgia. Yet experiences of haunting must in some way always belong to the present: they must be felt. This collection of essays opens up new and compelling areas of debate around the concepts of haunting, affect and landscape. Landscape studies, supernatural studies, haunting and memory are all rapidly growing fields of enquiry and this book synthesises ideas from several critical approaches - spectral, affective and spatial - to provide a new route into these subjects. Examining urban and rural landscapes, haunted domestic spaces, landscapes of trauma, and borderlands, this collection of essays is designed to cross disciplines and combine seemingly disparate academic approaches under the coherent locus of landscape and haunting. Presenting a timely intervention in some of the most pressing scholarly debates of our time, Haunted Landscapes offers an attractive array of essays that cover topics from Victorian times to the present.

Series Statement

Place, memory, affect

Uniform Title

Place, memory, affect.

Subject

• Landscapes in literature
• Haunted places
• Supernatural
• Setting (Literature)
• Memory in literature
• Memory in art
• Memory in motion pictures
• Psychic trauma in literature
• Psychic trauma in art
• Psychic trauma in motion pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I LANDSCAPES OF TRAUMA -- 1. Place as Palimpsest: Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger and the Haunting of Todtnauberg / Mark Riley -- 2. Spectral Cinema: Anamorphosis and the Haunted Landscapes of Aftermath and The Devil's Backbone / Matilda Mroz -- 3. Witching Welcome: Haunting and Post-Imperial Landscape in Hilary Mantel and Helen Oyeyemi / Ryan Trimm -- 4. ̀Tender Bodies': Embracing the Ecological Uncanny in Jim Crace's Being Dead / Niamh Downing -- pt. II INNER AND (SUB)URBAN LANDSCAPES -- 5. Phantasmal Cities: The Construction and Function of Haunted Landscapes in Victorian English Cities / Karl Bell -- 6. ̀The Girl Who Wouldn't Die': Masculinity, Power and Control in The Haunting of Hill House and Hell House / Kevin Corstorphine -- 7. Gothic Chronotopes and Bloodied Cobblestones: The Uncanny Psycho-Geography of London's Whitechapel Ward / HollyGale Millette -- 8. (Sub)Urban Landscapes and Perception in Neo-Victorian Fiction / Rosario Arias -- pt. III BORDERLANDS AND OUTLANDS -- 9. W. G. Sebald's Afterlives: Haunting Contemporary Landscape Writing / Daniel Weston -- 10. Reivers, Raiders and Revenants: The Haunted Landscapes of the Anglo-Scots Borders / Colin Younger -- 11. Haunting the Grown-Ups: The Borderlands of ParaNorman and Coraline / Rebecca Lloyd -- 12. ̀The Triumph of Nature': Borderlands and Sunset Horizons in Bram Stoker's The Snake's Pass / William Hughes.

Call Number

JFE 17-786

ISBN

• 9781783488810
• 1783488816
• 9781783488827
• 1783488824

LCCN

2016039193

OCLC

945582273

Title

Haunted landscapes : super-nature and the environment / edited by Ruth Heholt and Niamh Downing.

Publisher

London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Place, memory, affect

Place, memory, affect.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Heholt, Ruth, editor.

Downing, Niamh, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Haunted landscapes London ; Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016 9781783488834

Research Call Number

JFE 17-786