Cover; Acknowledgements; Introduction:Settled Unsettlement; or, Familiarizing the Uncanny; 1 Here There Be Monsters: Wilderness Gothic and Psychic Projection; 2 Haunted by a Lack of Ghosts: Gothic Absence and Settler Melancholy; 3 French-Canadian Gothic: Excess as Emplacement; 4 Local Familiars: Gothic Infusion and Settler Indigenization; 5 Playing fort da with History: Settler Postcolonial Gothic; 6 Strangers Within: Unsettling the Canadian Gothic; 7 Indigenous Ghost-Dancing: At Home on Native Land; Conclusion: The Spectre of Self-Invention; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Back Cover
Summary
Focusing on the ways that Canadian writers turned to the Gothic for its vitalising rather than unsettling potential, this volume offers an important reconsideration of the Gothic legacy in Canada
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and index
