Uncanny Modernity: Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties

by Jo Collins (Editor), J. Jervis (Editor)

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.

242 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2008

Reviews

[Jay Rothermel · Rating 2 out of 5]

A higher percentage of fashionable jargon, but several essays make it worth the effort