Gothic Metaphysics
From Alchemy to the Anthropocene
Author(s) Jodey Castricano
Language: English
Genre(s): Literary Criticism
Series: Gothic Literary Studies
- November 2021 · 288 pages ·216x138mm
- · Hardback - 9781786837943
- · Ebook - pdf - 9781786837950
- · Ebook - epub - 9781786837967
About The Book
Endorsements
‘Gothic Metaphysics offers a bracing revaluation of Gothic values for the twenty-first century. Here, the Gothic – long the repository of arcane knowledges dismissed by scientific materialism – offers a mode of thought essential to our survival in the Anthropocene … realigning the Gothic with Jung, alchemy and quantum physics. This is indispensable reading not only on the Gothic but also on the state of things as they currently are and hope to be.’
Professor Joel Faflak, Western University, London, ON
Contents
Chapter 1: Gothic Metaphysics: From Alchemy to the Anthropocene
Chapter 2: Occult Subjects: Parapsychology and the Foreign Body in Psychoanalysis
Chapter 3: There Is No Occult-Free Zone: Transgenerational Emergence
Chapter 4: An Other-Valued Reality: Animism and Literature
Chapter 5: Ghost Dance
Chapter 6: Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and the Strange Question of Trans-Subjectivity
Chapter 7: Learning to Talk with Ghosts: Canadian Gothic and the Poetics of Haunting in Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach
Chapter 8: EcoGothic and the Anthropocene: The Ecological Subject
Chapter 9: Afterwor(l)ds: All My Relations
Bibliography