This book examines writing in the Gothic mode which subverts the dominant national narrative of the British home front. Instead of seeing wartime experience as a site of fellowship and emotional resilience, Elizabeth Bowen, Anna Kavan, Mervyn Peake, Roy Fuller and others depict shadowy figures on the margin ofthe nation. INDICE: List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Urban Gothic of the British Home Front Nightmare City: Gothic Flânerie and Wartime Spectacle in Henry Green and Roy Fuller Carceral City, Cryptic Signs: Wartime Fiction by Anna Kavan and Graham Greene Gothic, Mechanized Ghosts: Wartime Industry in Inez Holden, Anne Ridler and Diana Murray Hill Elizabeth Bowen's Uncanny Houses 'The Rubbish Pile and the Grave': Nation and the Abject in John Piper, Graham Sutherland and Mervyn Peake Afterword: The Politics of Lamentation Works Cited Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57753-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 09/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés