Mid-Century Gothic : The Uncanny Objects of Modernity in British Literature and Culture After the Second World War

Name: Mid-Century Gothic : The Uncanny Objects of Modernity in British Literature and Culture After the Second World War
Brand: Manchester University Press

Manchester University Press

Mid-Century GothicThe Uncanny Objects of Modernity in British Literature and Culture After the Second World War\nAuthor(s): Lisa Mullen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Manchester University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Manchester University Press\nISBN-13: 9781526160256, 978-1526160256\nSynopsis\nMid-Century Gothic defines a distinct post-war literary and cultural moment in Britain, lasting ten years from [tel]. 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 increasingly uneasy, culture answered with gothic narratives that reflected two troubling qualities of the new objects of modernity: their uncannily autonomous agency, and their disquieting intimacy with the reified human body. \nThe book offers fresh readings of novels, plays, essays and films of the period, unearthing neglected texts as well as reassessing c.