Jo Collins 
Uncanny Modernity 
Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties

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.

Table of Content

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

About the author

SCOTT BREWSTER Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Central Lancashire, UK ELISABETH BRONFEN Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Zurich, Switzerland JAMES DONALD Professor of Film Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia TOM GUNNING Professor of Media and Film Studies at the University of Chicago, USA ROGER LUCKHURST Senior Lecturer in English at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK DAVID PUNTER Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol, UK MICHAEL SALER Professor of History at the University of California (Davis), USA ROY SELLARS Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Southern Denmark, Kolding JULIAN WOLFREYS Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Loughborough, UK