The Gothic in Contemporary British Trauma Fiction

by Ashlee Joyce

Book Overview

This book examines the intersection of trauma and the Gothic in six contemporary British novels: Martin Amis's London Fields, Margaret Drabble's The Gates of Ivory, Ian McEwan's Atonement, Pat Barker's Regeneration and Double Vision, and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. In these works, the Gothic functions both as an expression of societal violence at the turn of the twenty-first century and as a response...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303026730X
• ISBN13: 9783030267308
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"