Undergrounds of the Phantom of the Opera

JERROLD E. HOGLE is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and the Program in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies at the University of Arizona. A Guggenheim, Mellon, and Lily Endowment Fellow, he has published widely on Romantic literature, literary and cultural theory, and Gothic fictions of many kinds. His best-known previous book is Shelley's Process from Oxford University Press, and he is currently Past President of the International Gothic Association, as well as a frequent guest editor for the journal Gothic Studies and editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction for the Cambridge University Press.

• PART I: THE NOVEL: LEROUX'S DISTINCTIVE CHOICES AND THEIR WIDER CONTEXTS The Original Fantôme's Mysteries: An Introduction The Psychoanalytic Veneer in the Novel: Le Fantôme's 'Unconscious Depths' and their Social Foundations Leroux's Sublimations of Politics: From Degeneration and the Suppression of Carnival to the Abjection of Mixed 'Otherness' The Ghost of the Counterfeit: Leroux's Fantôme and the Cultural Work of the Gothic PART II: THE MAJOR ADAPTATIONS: NEO-GOTHIC SUBLIMATIONS OF CHANGING CULTURAL FEARS Universal's Silent Film: The Recast Scapegoat, the Quest for the Widest Audience, and the Management of Labor The 1943 Remake: Recombining Film Styles, Struggling with Psychoanalysis, and Sanitizing World War II The Culture of Adolescence: The Lloyd Webber Musical and the Adaptations that Paved the Way, 1962-1986 Different Phantoms for Different Problems: Some Adaptations Since the Musical The Phantom's Lasting Significance: An Assessment of its Cultural Functions Notes Illustrations Works Cited Index

'The book offers quite a remarkable account of Leroux's Phantom and its various adaptations, an account notable for the skilful combination of textual scholarship, cultural-historical research, subtle critical interpretation and innovative theoretical approach.' - Fred Botting, Keele University 'This book is a well-written, thorough, and engaging assessment that I would recommend as one of particular use to scholars interested in the Gothic novel, adaptation, opera, European history, and psychoanalysis and the novel.' - Joanna Aroutian, Gothic Studies