Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and index.
Contents:
Phantoms of theory. Spectrality : the ghosting of theory -- Fables of history. Francis Lathom in the eighteenth century -- Types of tyranny -- Sciences of the strange. Pseudo-science and the creation of monsters -- Technogenealogies : family secrets -- The Abhuman remains of the Gothic -- 'A foot is what fits the shoe' : Gothic, disability and prosthesis -- Some humans, some monstrosities. M. R. James : terror and history -- Dark and light rays : the penetration of the body -- Of monsters and animales -- Global, local, war. Cyborgs, borders and stories for virgins : Mexico and the Gothic -- Heart lands : contemporary Scottish Gothic -- Last things. Grievous bodily harm -- Thoughts on teaching psychoanalysis and the Gothic.
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