Haunted Landscapes: Super-Nature and the Environment

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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. Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction: Unstable Landscapes: Affect, Representation and a Multiplicity of Hauntings Haunting, Affect and the Non-Representational Derrida, Theories from the Margins and an Ethics of Haunting From Criticisms to Multiplicities Multiplicities Structure of the Book Notes Bibliography Part I Landscapes of Trauma Chapter One Place as Palimpsest: Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger and the Haunting of Todtnauberg Notes Bibliography Chapter Two Spectral Cinema: Anamorphosis and the Haunted Landscapes of Aftermath and The Devil’s Backbone Spectral Looking and Anamorphosis Aftermath’s Blind Spots Spectral Space: Paths and Detours The Devil’s Backbone: Spectral Developments Gothic Ghostliness The End(s) of Haunting Notes Bibliography Chapter Three Witching Welcome: Haunting and Post-Imperial Landscape in Hilary Mantel and Helen Oyeyemi Spectral Suburbia in Beyond Black The Haunted Habitation of White Is for Witching Conjuring the Past Notes Bibliography Chapter Four ‘Tender Bodies’: Embracing the Ecological Uncanny in Jim Crace’s Being Dead Uncanny Effects/.Affects The Uncanny Ecologies of Being Dead Bibliography Part II Inner and (Sub)Urban Landscapes Chapter Five Phantasmal Cities: The Construction and Function of Haunted Landscapes in Victorian English Cities Notes Bibliography Chapter Six ‘The Girl Who Wouldn’t Die’: Masculinity, Power and Control in The Haunting of Hill House and Hell House Bibliography Chapter Seven Gothic Chronotopes and Bloodied Cobblestones: The Uncanny Psycho-.Geography of London’s Whitechapel Ward Mapping Dead[ly] Space—Whitechapel, 1888 Murder and Martyrdom of the Maternal Gothic Myth, Fear and the Maternal Martyr Bibliography Chapter Eight (Sub)Urban Landscapes and Perception in Neo-Victorian Fiction1 Notes Bibliography Part III Borderlands and Outlands Chapter Nine W. G. Sebald’s Afterlives: Haunting Contemporary Landscape Writing Bibliography Chapter Ten Reivers, Raiders and Revenants: The Haunted Landscapes of the Anglo-.Scots Borders Shadowlands The Bloody Borders Haunted Borderlands Spectral Folklore Cursed Landscapes The Sometimes Wizard of the North Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter Eleven Haunting the Grown-Ups: The Borderlands of ParaNorman and Coraline Domesticated Landscapes External Landscapes Animated Landscapes Bibliography Chapter Twelve ‘The Triumph of Nature’: Borderlands and Sunset Horizons in Bram Stoker’s The Snake’s Pass Bibliography Author Biographies Index