Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers : The English Country House in the Contemporary Novel
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Mediated Fictions
ISBN-10
3631657153
ISBN-13
9783631657157
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Imprint
Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 26th, 2015
Print length
268 Pages
Weight
442 grams
Dimensions
21.80 x 15.50 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: from c 1900 -
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Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers is the first study of contemporary literary representations of the English country house. The book analyses contemporary novels, including Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger by situating them in a broader context of manorial literary tradition.
Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers is the first study of contemporary literary representations of one of the most iconic topoi in English literature and culture – the country house. The book analyses nine contemporary novels, including Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, Ian McEwan’s Atonement, Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger and Alan Hollinghurst’s The Stranger’s Child, by situating them in a broader context of manorial literary tradition. Analysing the different traditions of the novel of manners, gothic fiction and postmodern metafiction, the book identifies three principal variants of the manorial topos, which expound the country house as the locus of varied, often contradictory meanings.
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