This book examines 'home front' literature of the Second World War, arguing that Gothic tropes and forms mark moments of fracture in the national mythologies of wartime home, city and fellowship. These works in the Gothic mode subvert mythologies of nation that are still influential today. Anna Kavan, Mervyn Peake, Elizabeth Bowen, Roy Fuller, Henry Green and others present counter-stories to the dominant national mythology of British survival and emotional resilience. In the texts of this monograph, the city grows strange, time distorts, and hallucinatory narrative voices depict a nightmare realm. Doubling, temporal dislocation, narrative disjunction and tropes of haunting gather around shadowy figures on the margin of the nation. This boo...
In this paper, I examine the complex temporality and spatiality of London in fin-de-siècle British f...
This dissertation uses literary theory, cultural studies, and human geography to show how social spa...
The city of London was, during the years of 1940–1941, a city under fire. The metropolis seemed to h...
This book examines 'home front' literature of the Second World War, arguing that Gothic tropes and f...
In my thesis, I argue that there has been a trend in post-World War II British literature that posit...
In the late Victorian era a new type of novel appeared. Dark and creepy, filled with supernatural c...
The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles offers refreshing new analyses of the fictions of Gothic dual...
Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen are both legends of their time, lauded individually for their con...
This paper discusses the gothic tensions in H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds. It positions a stor...
The 20th century was marked by two of the bloodiest global wars in history as well as numerous colon...
Gothic Britain is the first collection of essays to consider how the Gothic responds to, and is info...
Why, at a time when the majority of us no longer believe in ghosts, demons or the occult, does Gothi...
The use of Late Victorian London as a location in novels set in Imperial Great Britain has long been...
This paper examines Mervyn Peake’s fantastical renditions of London, focusing on the London-based ci...
In this paper, I examine the complex temporality and spatiality of London in fin-de-siècle British f...
This dissertation uses literary theory, cultural studies, and human geography to show how social spa...
The city of London was, during the years of 1940–1941, a city under fire. The metropolis seemed to h...
This book examines 'home front' literature of the Second World War, arguing that Gothic tropes and f...
In my thesis, I argue that there has been a trend in post-World War II British literature that posit...
In the late Victorian era a new type of novel appeared. Dark and creepy, filled with supernatural c...
The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles offers refreshing new analyses of the fictions of Gothic dual...
Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen are both legends of their time, lauded individually for their con...
This paper discusses the gothic tensions in H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds. It positions a stor...
The 20th century was marked by two of the bloodiest global wars in history as well as numerous colon...
Gothic Britain is the first collection of essays to consider how the Gothic responds to, and is info...
Why, at a time when the majority of us no longer believe in ghosts, demons or the occult, does Gothi...
The use of Late Victorian London as a location in novels set in Imperial Great Britain has long been...
This paper examines Mervyn Peake’s fantastical renditions of London, focusing on the London-based ci...
In this paper, I examine the complex temporality and spatiality of London in fin-de-siècle British f...
This dissertation uses literary theory, cultural studies, and human geography to show how social spa...
The city of London was, during the years of 1940–1941, a city under fire. The metropolis seemed to h...