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Mid-Century Gothic - The Uncanny Objects of Modernity in British Literature and Culture After the Second World War (Paperback)
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Mid-Century Gothic - The Uncanny Objects of Modernity in British Literature and Culture After the Second World War (Paperback)
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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. -- .
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