Gothic Metaphysics by Jodey Castricano
Gothic Metaphysics is a radical departure from Freudian-centred criticism of Gothic literature. It aims to explore our modern dilemma in the time of the Anthropocene, by bringing to light the role of Gothic since its inception in 1764 in holding space for a worldview familiar to certain mystical traditions - such as alchemy, which held to the view of a living cosmos yet later deemed 'uncanny' and anachronistic by Freud. In developing this idea, Gothic Metaphysics explores the influence of the Middle Ages on the emergence of Gothic, seeing it as an encrypted genre that serves as the site of a 'live burial' of 'animism', which has emerged in the notion of 'quantum entanglement' best described by Carl G. Jung and physicist Wolfgang Pauli in the theory of synchronicity linking alchemy with quantum mechanics. This relationship finds itself in dialogue with the Gothic's long-held concern for the 'sentience of space and place', as described by renowned Gothic scholar Fredrick Frank. The volume Gothic Metaphysics is multi-valent and explores how Gothic has sustained the view of a sentient world despite the disqualification of nature - not only in respect to the extirpation of animism as a worldview, but also with regard to an affirmation of consciousness beyond that of human exceptionalism.-
History of the Gothic: American Gothic
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History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1764-1824
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The Queer Uncanny
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History of the Gothic: Gothic Literature 1825-1914
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Welsh Gothic
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Queer Others in Victorian Gothic
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History of the Gothic: Twentieth-Century Gothic
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Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination
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Theological Monsters
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Postcolonial Gothic Fictions from the Caribbean, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
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The Gothic Ideology
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Metamodern Gothic
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Women's Authorship and the Early Gothic
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Gothic Literary Travel and Tourism
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Servants and the Gothic, 1764-1831
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American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature
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The Gothic and the Carnivalesque in American Culture
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South African Gothic
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Gothic Utterance
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Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Posthuman Gothic
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Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic
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Body Gothic
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The Twilight of the Gothic?
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The Fantastic and European Gothic
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Gothic Invasions
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Stephen King's Gothic
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The Gothic and Catholicism
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Republicanism and the American Gothic
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Shakespearean Gothic
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George Eliot and the Gothic Novel
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Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797-1830
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The Nature of the Beast
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Gothic Contemporaries
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Gothic Remains
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The Brontës as Gothic Writers
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The Gothic at War
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Gothic Metis
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Gothic Precarity
Jodey Castricano is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. She teaches English and Cultural Studies, and is a Research Fellow with the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Her specialisations include Gothic Studies, posthumanist philosophy, and critical animal studies with extended work in ecocriticsm, ecofeminism and ecotheory.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781786837943 |
| ISBN 10 | 1786837943 |
| Title | Gothic Metaphysics |
| Author | Jodey Castricano |
| Series | Gothic Literary Studies |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Wales Press |
| Year published | 2021-11-15 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
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