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Patrick McGrath and his Worlds - Madness and the Transnational Gothic (Paperback)
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Patrick McGrath and his Worlds - Madness and the Transnational Gothic (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
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Following the publication of Ghost Town (2005), a complex, globally
conscious genealogy of millennial Manhattan, McGrath's
transnational status as an English author resident in New York, his
pointed manipulation of British and American contexts, and his
clear apprehension of imperial legacies have all come into sharper
focus. By bringing together readings cognizant of this
transnational and historical sensitivity with those that build on
existing studies of McGrath's engagements with the gothic and
madness, Patrick McGrath and his Worlds sheds new light on an
author whose imagined realities reflect the anxieties, pathologies,
and power dynamics of our contemporary world order. McGrath's
fiction has been noted as parodic (The Grotesque, 1989),
psychologically disturbing (Spider, 1990), and darkly sexual
(Asylum, 1996). Throughout, his corpus is characterized by a
preoccupation with madness and its institutions and by a nuanced
relationship to the gothic. With its international range of
contributors, and including a new interview with McGrath himself,
this book opens up hitherto underexplored theoretical perspectives
on the key concerns of McGrath's ouevre, moving conversations
around McGrath's work decisively forward. Offering the first
sustained exploration of his fiction's transnational and
world-historical dimensions, Patrick McGrath and his Worlds seeks
to situate, reflect upon, and interrogate McGrath's role as a key
voice in Anglophone letters in our millennial global moment.
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