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ISBN 10: 0230577539
ISBN 13: 9780230577534
Author: S Wasson
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 of the nation.
1 Introduction: The Urban Gothic of the British Home Front
London's urban Gothic
Fractured narrative, fractured nation
2 Nightmare City: Gothic Flânerie and Wartime Spectacle in Henry Green and Roy Fuller
The flâneur's use of the city
Gothic flânerie: psychological disintegration
"Bright, dead Dolls": flânerie and wartime London
Henry Green, Caught
Perilous light
London's imperial legacies
Hallucinations of women in urban space
Monstrous city
3 Carceral City, Cryptic Signs: Wartime Fiction by Anna Kavan and Graham Greene
Barbed wire and locked doors: internment camps and asylums
Anna Kavan
Graham Greene's The Ministry of Fear (1943)
4 Gothic, Mechanised Ghosts: Wartime Industry in Inez Holden, Anne Ridler and Diana Murray Hill
Women's wartime work
"A hideous yellow gloom"
Deadly spaces and disintegrating narrative
5 Elizabeth Bowen's Uncanny Houses
Homes and nation
Constructing the home front
Nation and the domestic uncanny
"Strange growths": uncanny life in Bowen's interiors
"Dark ate the outlines of the house": Bowen's national position
"The infected zone": time and the uncanny
Female cruelty in the domestic interior
6 "The Rubbish Pile and the Grave": Nation and the Abject in John Piper, Graham Sutherland and Mervy
National narratives of the dead
City of the dead
"Murdered Bodies": anthropomorphic ruins in neo-Romantic art criticism
Mervyn Peake's wartime writing
Afterword: The Politics of Lamentation
Resistant mourning
"Crying with phantom tongue": poetry that resists consolation
Notes
urban gothic definition
urban gothic literature
urban gothic painting
urban gothic clothing
urbanization of london
gothic underground city
