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Uncanny Modernity

Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties

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  • © 2008

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  1. Jo Collins

    1. University of Kent, UK

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  2. John Jervis

    1. University of Kent, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Jo Collins, John Jervis
    Pages 1-9

  3. Uncanny Presences

    • John Jervis
    Pages 10-50

  4. Night and the Uncanny

    • Elisabeth Bronfen
    Pages 51-67

  5. Uncanny Reflections, Modern Illusions: Sighting the Modern Optical Uncanny

    • Tom Gunning
    Pages 68-90

  6. As It Happened … Borderline, the Uncanny and the Cosmopolitan

    • James Donald
    Pages 91-111

  7. Access Denied: Memory and Resistance in the Contemporary Ghost Film

    • Scott Brewster
    Pages 112-127

  8. The Uncanny After Freud: The Contemporary Trauma Subject and the Fiction of Stephen King

    • Roger Luckhurst
    Pages 128-145

  9. ‘Neurotic Men’ and a Spectral Woman: Freud, Jung and Sabina Spielrein

    • Jo Collins
    Pages 146-167

  10. The Urban Uncanny: The City, the Subject, and Ghostly Modernity

    • Julian Wolfreys
    Pages 168-180

  11. Profane Illuminations, Delicate and Mysterious Flames: Mass Culture and Uncanny Gnosis

    • Michael Saler
    Pages 181-200

  12. Terrorism and the Uncanny, or, The Caves of Tora Bora

    • David Punter
    Pages 201-215

  13. Document: ‘On the Psychology of the Uncanny’ (1906): Ernst Jentsch

    • Jo Collins, John Jervis
    Pages 216-228

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 229-234
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This book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters disturb the rational presumptions of the modern world view and the security of modern self-identity, just as the latter may themselves be implicated in the production of these experiences as uncanny.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Kent, UK

    Jo Collins, John Jervis

About the editors

SCOTT BREWSTER Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Central Lancashire, UK ELISABETH BRONFEN Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Zurich, Switzerland JAMES DONALD Professor of Film Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia TOM GUNNING Professor of Media and Film Studies at the University of Chicago, USA ROGER LUCKHURST Senior Lecturer in English at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK DAVID PUNTER Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol, UK MICHAEL SALER Professor of History at the University of California (Davis), USA ROY SELLARS Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Southern Denmark, Kolding JULIAN WOLFREYS Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Loughborough, UK

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