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

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Lisa Mullen

Mid-Century Gothic

The Uncanny Objects of Modernity in British Literature and Culture After the Second World War...

Lisa Mullen

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English

Manchester University Press
01 September 2021

Other graphic art forms; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Mid-Century Gothic defines a distinct post-war literary and cultural moment in Britain, lasting ten years from 1945-55.

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. The book offers fresh readings of novels, plays, essays and films of the period, unearthing neglected texts as well as reassessing canonical works. By bringing these into dialogue with the mid-century architecture, exhibitions and material culture, it provides a new perspective on a notoriously neglected historical moment and challenges previous accounts of the supposed timidity of post-war culture. -- .

By: Lisa Mullen
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 376g
ISBN: 9781526160256
ISBN 10: 1526160250
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 September 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lisa Mullen is a Junior Research Fellow at Worcester College, University of Oxford