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Hauntology

Also known as Ghosts of futures past

by Merlin Coverley

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Fiction

Description

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Ghosts and spectres, the eerie and the occult. Why is contemporary culture so preoccupied by the supernatural, so captivated by the revenants of an earlier age, so haunted? The concept of hauntology has evolved since first emerging in the 1990s, and has now entered the cultural mainstream as a shorthand for our newfound obsession with the recent past. But where does this term come from and what exactly does it mean? This book answers these questions by examining the history of our fascination with the uncanny from the golden age of the Victorian ghost story to the present day.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists, Occultism and esotericism, and Parapsychology and psychical research.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from harvard matched “occultism”. Retained metadata contains “occult” in the description, “supernatural” in the description, “occult” in the subject metadata, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

    • “occultism”· via Harvard LibraryCloud
    • “occult”· in description
    • “supernatural”· in description
    • “occult”· in subject
    • “Occult sciences”· in subject
    • “Occultism”· in subject
  • Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

    Retained metadata contains “Ghosts” in the alternative title, “ghost” in the description, “Ghosts” in the description, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Ghosts”· in alternative title
    • “ghost”· in description
    • “Ghosts”· in description
    • “haunted”· in description
    • “ghost”· in subject
  • Parapsychology and psychical research

    Retained metadata contains “Parapsychology” in the subject metadata.

    • “Parapsychology”· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Harvard LibraryCloud bibliographic record

320 pages ; 20 cm

2020Oldcastle BooksEnglish
  • 9780857304193
  • 9780857304216
  • 0857304194
Catalog record

Subjects

16 subject headings

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