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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 new-found obsession with...

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Coverley's book is thought-provoking and engaging... a great addition to the haunted bookshelf * Fortean Times *
Coverley provides a very useful time-frame for the evolution of hauntology * Northern Earth *
A brilliantly clear and incisive little introduction to a theme or field of increasingly urgent relevance -- Prof Matthew Beaumont

Hauntology

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      Publisher Oldcastle Books Ltd
      Published 21 October 2020
      ISBN-13 9780857304193
      978-0857304193
      ISBN-10 0857304194
      Also in:
      Politics, Philosophy & Society Cultural studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 new-found obsession with...

      Trade Review
      Coverley's book is thought-provoking and engaging... a great addition to the haunted bookshelf * Fortean Times *
      Coverley provides a very useful time-frame for the evolution of hauntology * Northern Earth *
      A brilliantly clear and incisive little introduction to a theme or field of increasingly urgent relevance -- Prof Matthew Beaumont

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