At the core of the readings of the Gothic in this book is the concept of the uncanny. Although it is not the only core trope of the Gothic, it is one that often drives the genre and its various apparitions and spectral presences in other areas of study. The uncanny — or, in German, the unheimlich — is a term to describe the transformation of the familiar into something strange, unknown and even sinister.
It encompasses the feeling that things are not what they seem, that there is something hidden or ominous behind the familiar. Sigmund Freud, who popularized the term in an essay on the topic, framed it as a psychological state, one stemming from the unconscious mind and largely beyond our own control — the unknown, unremembered self is beyond our waking mind — where our feeling of personal security is gone, and even the known becomes unfamiliar.
Masahiro Mori has explored the similarity between robots and humans, which creates an experience of ambivalence and anxiety when things are not quite what they should be.
This equally extends to situations where we are on the cusp of, or in the process of changing; where the safe space of the home becomes threatening; or where someone we are talking to is not who or what we think. A society or culture — the ideological environment created by patriarchy, heteronormativity, etc. The Real is an excess that can never find comprehensible form, a true Gothic spectre that cannot be represented or contained but unsettles the everyday by its unseen yet continual presence.
One final interpretation of the uncanny is worth discussing in relation to the Gothic. This theme relates to the idea of the past not remaining in its grave, but in this case it is not so much repression as a metatextual resurrection.
Much of this can be seen to be an integral part of the notion of a genre, which contains works that typically utilize similar tropes and themes. However, arguably, the Gothic genre, and the haunting of other genres by the Gothic, holds a special place in this framework because it is specifically about the uncanny and the recurrence of the past.
A volume of this nature necessarily cannot cover every expression and manifestation of the Gothic as the amount of material covered would be far greater than a volume this size would allow, but it will introduce many of the core themes, characters, and texts as well as identifying varying modalities of the Gothic loosely grouped around six topic areas: Ideologies and Imperialism, America, Territories, Gender and Sexuality, Media and Mediums, and Gothic Futures.
Each essay in this collection uses one key text as a lens through which the contributor examines a particular theme, medium, or context within the Gothic. These subjects have their roots in nineteenth-century Britain, the British Empire and the Gothic Revival, and centre around the ongoing anxieties of colonialism and conflict. The tropes developed in the chapters on Victorian, Imperial, Postcolonial, War, and Transatlantic Gothic in this part focus on dominant and dominating ideologies and the subsequent — often uncanny in nature — resistance to and transgression of them.
Their importance is shown by their resonance throughout the Gothic and their hauntings of, and interconnections with, other genres. The act of colonization inevitably raises ghosts, both those that follow from the old home but also those raised in the new one: it is by definition an unfamiliar environment for settlers. As highlighted in the studies here on American, Southern, African American, and Zombie Gothic, much of this involves the still unresolved issues around the history of the South, slavery and racism, which still haunts the nation in the twenty-first century.
Much of this section revolves around the uncanny repetition and adaptation of outside influences and narratives to produce a unique expression of the genre, but which can also highlight the ways in which the Gothic allows for forms of resistance and identification beyond dominating ideologies. The first edition of the novel was published in , and was written by Robert Bloch.
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