Undergrounds of the Phantom of the Opera Sublimation and the Gothic in Leroux's Novel and Its Progeny

Name: Undergrounds of the Phantom of the Opera Sublimation and the Gothic in Leroux's Novel and Its Progeny
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ISBN: 9780312293468

ISBN-10: 0312293461

ISBN-13: 9780312293468

Edition: 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Jerrold E. Hogle

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This comprehensive analytical study of the Phantom of the Opera proposes answers to the question, “why do we keep needing this story told and retold in the Western world?” by revealing the history of deep cultural tensions that underlie the novel and each of its major adaptations. Using extensive historical and textual evidence and drawing on perspectives from several theories of cultural studies, this book argues that we need this tale told and reconfigured because it provides us ways to both confront and disguise how we have fashioned our senses of identity in the Western middle class. The Phantom of the Opera —in varying ways over time—turns out, like the “Gothic” tradition it extends,…

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List price: $109.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 5/30/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 262
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.210

Jerrold E. Hogle is University Distinguished Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies and Honors in English at the University of Arizona. He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (Cambridge, 2002) and author of The Undergrounds of the Phantom of the Opera (2002) and Shelley's Process: Radical Transference and the Development of his Major Works (1988).



List of Illustrations


Preface


A Note on Translations



The Novel: Leroux's Distinctive Choices and Their Wider Contexts



The Original Fantome's Mysteries: An Introduction



The Psychoanalytic Veneer in the Novel: Le Fantome's "Unconscious Depths" and their Social Foundations



Leroux's Sublimations of Cultural Politics: From Degeneration and the Suppression of Carnival to the Abjection of Mixed "Otherness"



The Ghost of the Counterfeit: Leroux's Fantome and the Cultural Work of the Gothic



The Major Adaptations: Neo-Gothic Sublimations of Changing Cultural Fears



Universal's Silent Film: The Recast Scapegoat, the Quest for the Widest Audience, and the Management of Labor



The 1943 Remake: Recombining Film Styles, Struggling with Psychoanalysis, and Sanitizing World War II



The Culture of Adolescence: The Lloyd Webber Musical and the Adaptations that Paved the Way, 1962-1986



Different Phantoms for Different Problems: Some Adaptations Since the Musical



The Phantom's Lasting Significance: An Assessment of Its Cultural Functions


Notes


Works Cited


Index