Urban gothic of the Second World War : dark London by Wasson, Sara instant download

Urban gothic of the Second World War : dark London by Wasson, Sara instant download

xii, 209 p. : 23 cm, Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-195) and index, 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