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Frontmatter; List of Figures; 0 Introduction; 1 Source Texts; 1.1 The Odyssean Nekyia; 1.2 Heracles and Dionysus; 1.3 The Descent of Aeneas; 1.4 Orpheus and Eurydice; 1.5 Persephone; 1.6 Elements of the Underworld Narrative; 2 The Ghost of the Father: Spirits of the Postmodern; 2.1 Finding the Way in John Barth’s Underworld; 2.2 The Anxiety of Influence in Neil Gaiman’s Underworlds; 3 Engendering the Haunted Text; 3.1 Mutations and Hauntings: A.S. Byatt’s Angels and Insects; 3.2 Mutations: Morpho Eugenia; 3.3 Hauntings: The Conjugial Angel; 3.4 Persephone Interrupted: Coraline; 3.5 The Doll’s Descent: Searching for Persephone in the Novels of Elena Ferrante; 4 The Wanderer’s Descent: The Underworlds of Diaspora; 4.1 Ascending from Oblivion in Song of Solomon; 4.2 Away: Dreams of Hell; 4.3 On the Outside Looking In: The Ground Beneath Her Feet; 4.4 The Ghost of the Father in State of Wonder; 4.5 The Catabatic Diaspora; 5 Epilogue; Endmatter; Bibliography; Index

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