Eoin Devereux is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland.Martin J Power is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland.Aileen Dillane is a Lecturer at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland.

• List of Figures and Tables / Foreword / Introduction: This Is the Way, Step Inside: UnderstandingJoy Division, Martin J. Power, Aileen Dillane and Eoin Devereux / PART 1: DEAD SOULS: HAUNTOLOGY AND FAUSTIAN CONTRACTS / 1 Missions of Dead Souls: A Hauntology of the Industrialism, Modernism and Esotericism in the Music of Joy Division, Michael Goddard / 2 Tony Wilson’s Bloody Contract: A Re-enactment of the Faustian Bargain, Dan Jacobson and Ian Jeffrey / PART 2: BALLARD, BURROUGHS, DOSTOEVSKY AND GOGOL: LITERARY (AND VISUAL) INFLUENCES ON JOY DIVISION / 3 Trying to Find a Clue, Trying to Find a Way to Get Out! The European Imaginary of Joy Division, Giacomo Bottà / 4 Literary Influences on Joy Division: J. G. Ballard, Franz Kafka, Dostoevsky, Sara Martinez / 5 ‘Possessed by a Fury That Burns from Inside’: On Ian Curtis’s Lyrics, Uwe Schütte / PART 3: JOY DIVISION AND MENTAL HEALTH / 6 In a Lonely Place: Illness and the Temporal Exile of Ian Curtis, Tiffany Naiman / 7 ‘Communication Breakdown: Inarticulacy an

This stunning collection provides essential insights into a lesser known, yet highly significant segment of British popular and post punk music history. With keywords like hauntology and psychogeography the book is a treasure trove full of amazing and inspiring perspectives, ranging from the socio-political history of 1970s Britain and the Manchester soundscape to the medical analysis of suicide and epilepsy treatment.