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03335aam a2200397 a 4500 001 7016BA24E99711E08F1A6CDA6AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20110928010149 008 100727s2010 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2010481432 020 $a 0230577539 020 $a 9780230577534 (acid-free paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)430839442 040 $a UKM $c UKM $d SILO $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BWKUK $d BWK $d BWX $d FDA $d CDX $d NLGGC $d UKTTE $d LML $d SHH $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat $a lccopycat 050 00 $a PR408.G68 $b W37 2010 082 04 $a 823.912093581 $2 22 084 $a 18.05 $2 bcl 100 1 $a Wasson, Sara. 245 1 $a Urban gothic of the Second World War : $b dark London / $c Sara Wasson. 260 $a Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2010. 300 $a xii, 209 p. : $b ill. ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-195) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : the urban Gothic of the British home front. London's urban Gothic ; Fractured narrative, fractured nation -- Nightmare city : Gothic FlaÌnerie and wartime spectacle in Henry Green and Roy Fuller. The flÌaneur's use of the city ; Gothic flaÌnerie : psychological disintegration ; "Bright, dead Dolls" : flaÌnerie and wartime London ; Henry Green, Caught ; Perilous light ; London's imperial legacies ; Hallucinations of women in urban space ; Monstrous city -- Carceral city, cryptic signs : wartime fiction by Anna Kavan and Graham Greene. Barbed wire and locked doors : internments camps and asylums ; Anna Kavan ; Graham Greene's The ministry of fear (1943) -- 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 -- 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 uncanny female cruelty in the domestic interior ; "The rubbish pile and the grave" : nation and the abject in John Piper, Graham Sutherland and Mervyn Peake. 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. 650 0 $a Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Literature and the war. 600 14 $a Piper, John, $d 1903-1992. 600 14 $a Sutherland, Graham Vivian, $d 1903-1980. 600 14 $a Peake, Mervyn Laurence, $d 1911-1968. 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1102/2010481432-d.html 856 41 $3 Table of contents only $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1102/2010481432-t.html 856 42 $3 Contributor biographical information $u http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1102/2010481432-b.html 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180106064649.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7016BA24E99711E08F1A6CDA6AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search