The Gothic in Contemporary British Trauma Fiction

• Main Author: Joyce, Ashlee (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Gothic fiction (Literary genre).; British literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Gothic Fiction.; British and Irish Literature.; Contemporary Literature.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Resurgence of the Gothic in Contemporary British Trauma Fiction
• Beyond the Event Horizon: Witnessing the Nuclear Sublime in Martin Amis's London Fields
• Gothic Collisions: Regarding Trauma in Margaret Drabble's The Gates of Ivory
• Gothic Misdirections: Troubling the Trauma Fiction Paradigm in Pat Barker's Double Vision
• Witness or Spectator?: Gothic Interrogations of the Reader-Witness in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
• Conclusion.