Haunted Landscapes

Ruth Heholt is a Senior Lecturer in English at Falmouth University, UKNiamh Downing is a Senior Lecturer in English at Falmouth University, UK

• Introduction, Unstable Landscapes: Affect, Representation and a Multiplicity of Hauntings, Ruth Heholt / Part I: Landscapes of Trauma / 1. Place as Palimpsest: Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger and the Haunting of Todtnauberg, Mark Riley / 2. Earth and Spectre: Haunted Spaces and Mourning Rituals in Polish Cinema, Matilda Mroz / 3. Witching Welcome: Haunting and Postimperial Hospitality in Hilary Mantel and Helen Oyeyemi, Ryan Trimm / 4. ‘Tender Bodies’: Embracing the Ecological Uncanny in Jim Crace’s Being Dead, Niamh Downing / Part 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 that Wouldn’t Die’: Masculinity, Power and Control in the Haunted House Novel, Kevin Corstorphine / 7.Theatrical Alleys and Bloodied Cobblestones: The Uncanny Psycho-Geography of London’s Whitechapel Ward, Holly Gale Millette / 8. (Sub)urban Landscapes and Perception in Neo-Victorian Fiction, Rosario Arias / Part III:

Together, the essays in this volume offer a fascinating account of the relationship between our ideas of ghosts and our ideas of landscape. They remind us, usefully, of the importance of the unseen and unknown in the process of seeing, knowing and reading place and space.