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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Connecting Trauma Theory, 9/11 Novels, Gothic Traditions, and the Unidentified Bones of the World Trade Center -- A Gothic Intervention in Approaches to 9/11 Fiction -- Critical Currents -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Don DeLillo's Falling Man (2007): Deserting and Impersonating the Dead -- Critical Reception -- Freud, the Uncanny, and Disaster Ghosts -- The Erotics of 9/11 -- The Viral Transmission of Trauma -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005): Searching and Disinterring the Dead -- Critical Reception -- Establishing Gothic Tendencies inside the Quest -- The Shakespearean Gothic Connection -- Behind Every Trauma Stands Another -- Memory Debates -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Lynne Sharon Schwartz's The Writing on the Wall (2005): Avenging and Resurrecting the Dead -- Critical Reception -- Gothic Scripts -- A Clamor of Ghosts -- The Twins' Toys and Gothicized Play Therapy -- Art, Lovers, and Gothic Contamination -- On the Terrors of the Future -- Doppelgängers and Perpetrators -- Pursuing Revenge -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Griffin Hansbury's The Nostalgist (2012): Conjuring and Romancing the Dead -- Critical Reception -- The Necessary Ghost -- Castration Anxiety -- Conclusion -- Note -- Chapter 5: Patrick McGrath's Ground Zero (2005): Abandoning and Angering the Dead -- Critical Reception -- Ghost Sightings -- Whores and Psychiatrists -- Conclusion -- Note -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Further Reading -- Appendix 2: Interview at the Opening of the National September 11 Memorial & -- Museum, New York City, with Its Executive Vice President and Director Alice M. Greenwald (June 16, 2014) -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author. "9/11 Gothic explores ghostly presences in terrorism novels from New Yorkers Don DeLillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Griffin Hansbury, and Patrick McGrath. Arguing how theories on trauma and Gothic combine to interpret ghosts, Danel Olson discusses what supernatural meetings express about grief, guilt, mental instability, and suicidal urges"--
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