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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. -- .
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. -- .
'If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have
answered: "To fight against Fascism," and if you had asked me what
I was fighting for, I should have answered: "Common decency."'
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of the Spanish Civil
War. It was the last and most mature of Orwell's documentary books
and it is a sharp, focused and angry account of the fighting in
Spain. The discomforts of trench warfare, his near-death experience
of being shot, and his painful and disorientating medical treatment
all contribute to the book's gripping immediacy. At the same time,
Orwell was aware that he was producing a work of art: 'Beware of my
partisanship,' he warns his readers, 'my mistakes of fact, and the
distortion inevitably caused by my having seen only one corner of
events.' Lisa Mullen's introduction examines how the book straddles
the divide between literature and history, and provides readers and
students with a concise explanatory account of the controversies
which have grown up around the book since its publication.
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