Mid-century gothic : the uncanny objects of modernity in British literature and culture after the Se...
Mid-century gothic : the uncanny objects of modernity in British literature and culture after the Se...
Mid-century gothic : the uncanny objects of modernity in British literature and culture after the Second World War / Lisa Mullen.
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Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
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G 2020/1233
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Language
English
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Physical content
230 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: 'The world of things': an introduction to mid-century gothic -- Part I: Agency. Rubble, walls and murals: the threshold between abstraction and materiality -- Lost in translation: migrant bodies and uncanny skin -- Machines and spectrality: the gothic potential of technology -- Part II...
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Publisher
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2019.
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Summary
'Mid-Century Gothic' defines a distinct post-war literary and cultural moment in Britain, lasting ten years from 1945-55. This was a decade haunted by the trauma of fascism and war, but equally uneasy about the new norms of peacetime and the resurgence of commodity culture. As old assumptions about the primacy of the human subject became increasing...
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Mid-century gothic : the uncanny objects of modernity in British literature and culture after the Second World War / Lisa Mullen.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-225) and index.
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ebook version : 9781526132796
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G 2020/1233
Record Identifier
74VKaZ0bemK3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaZ0bemK3
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ISBN
152613277X hardcover
9781526132772 hardcover
DDC
820.911209041
MMS ID
991024293718902626
