No Direction Home: The Uncanny In Literature

The purpose of this book will be to attempt to show, at great length, that the literature that falls under the category Freud and Jentsch describe as unheimlich is a kind of literature that at first makes us feel at home, feel comforted, feel safe and reassured and then, surreptitiously, stealthily, silently, leads us astray, takes us off the beaten track and into a place we do not quite recognise, into an unhome.

Like the thief in the night, like the Pied Piper, like the Big Bad Wolf, the u...