Name: From the Supernatural to the Uncanny
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From the Supernatural to the Uncanny

Edited By: Zoltán Biedermann, Stephen M. Hart

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This collection of thirteen essays built around the question ‘what is the supernatural, and how, and why, has it changed over time?’ gives rise to a clear, comparative and diachronic study of the main characteristics of supernatural phenomena.

This volume is a collection of thirteen essays built around the question ‘what is the supernatural, and how, and why, has it changed over time?’…

This volume is a collection of thirteen essays built around the question ‘what is the supernatural, and how, and why, has it changed over time?’ It is divided into two complementary sections; the first focussing on research on the discourse of the supernatural (including the miraculous) located in the medieval and early modern eras, and the second consisting of a set of test-cases involving research on the uncanny, often articulated in a post-Freudian sense, as expressed in modern literature, film and art. The eclectic and prismatic approach pursued via a variety of test-cases of the supernatural in this book gives rise to a clear, comparative and diachronic study of the main characteristics of the supernatural.

Stephen M. Hart is Professor of Latin American Film, Literature and Culture at University College London (UCL). He has published widely on the life and work of César Vallejo, including César Vallejo: A Literary Biography (2013), and founded the Centre of César Vallejo Studies at UCL. He has been awarded an Order of Merit by the Peruvian State and elected as a Corresponding Member of the Peruvian Academy of Language. He has recently published a new biography of Santa Rosa de Lima and a critical edition of Santa Rosa’s Apostolic Process in a research project funded jointly by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust.

Zoltán Biedermann is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies of University College London (UCL). He works on the Portuguese Empire in Asia with a focus on early modern diplomacy, imperial literature, cartography and the politics of space. He is the author of The Portuguese in Sri Lanka and South India (2014), The Historical Atlas of the Persian Gulf (2006) and Soqotra: Geschichte einer christlichen Insel im Indischen Ozean (2006). He is the recipient of the Ronald Tress Prize for Research Excellence (2012), and has been recently elected a corresponding member of the Academy of the Portuguese Marine.