Uncanny Modernity

This book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters disturb the rational presumptions of the modern world view and the security of modern self-identity, just as the latter may themselves be implicated in the production of these experiences as uncanny.

Notes on Contributors Introduction; J.Collins & J.Jervis Uncanny Presences; J.Jervis Night and the Uncanny; E.Bronfen Uncanny Reflections, Modern Illusions: Sighting the Modern Optical Uncanny; T.Gunning As it Happened... Borderline , the Uncanny and the Cosmopolitan; J.Donald Access Denied: Memory and Resistance in the Contemporary Ghost Film; S.Brewster The Uncanny After Freud: The Contemporary Trauma Subject and the Fiction of Stephen King; R.Luckhurst 'Neurotic Men' and a Spectral Woman: Freud, Jung and Sabina Spielrein; J.Collins The Urban Uncanny; J.Wolfreys Profane Illuminations, Delicate and Mysterious Flames: Mass Culture and Uncanny Gnosis; M.Saler 'On the Psychology of the Uncanny': Ernest Jentsch; translated by R.Sellars Terrorism and the Uncanny, or, The Caves of Tora-Bora; D.Punter Index