Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-195) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : the urban Gothic of the British home front. London's urban Gothic ; Fractured narrative, fractured nation -- Nightmare city : Gothic Flânerie and wartime spectacle in Henry Green and Roy Fuller. The fl̂aneur's use of the city ; Gothic flânerie : psychological disintegration ; "Bright, dead Dolls" : flânerie 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.
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