LEADER 03199nam 22005895 450 001 9910483701703321 005 20230810165338.0 010 $a3-030-26728-8 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-26728-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000009184977 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-26728-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5892521 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5892521 035 $a(OCoLC)1119639894 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009184977 100 $a20190905d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Gothic in Contemporary British Trauma Fiction /$fby Ashlee Joyce 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (VII, 233 p.) 311 $a3-030-26727-X 327 $aIntroduction: The Resurgence of the Gothic in Contemporary British Trauma Fiction -- Beyond the Event Horizon: Witnessing the Nuclear Sublime in Martin Amis?s London Fields -- Gothic Collisions: Regarding Trauma in Margaret Drabble?s The Gates of Ivory -- Gothic Misdirections: Troubling the Trauma Fiction Paradigm in Pat Barker?s Double Vision -- Witness or Spectator?: Gothic Interrogations of the Reader-Witness in Kazuo Ishiguro?s Never Let Me Go -- Conclusion. 330 $aThis book examines the intersection of trauma and the Gothic in six contemporary British novels: Martin Amis?s London Fields, Margaret Drabble?s The Gates of Ivory, Ian McEwan?s Atonement, Pat Barker?s Regeneration and Double Vision, and Kazuo Ishiguro?s Never Let Me Go. In these works, the Gothic functions both as an expression of societal violence at the turn of the twenty-first century and as a response to the related crisis of representation brought about by the contemporary individual?s highly mediated and spectatorial relationship to this violence. By locating these six novels within the Gothic tradition, this work argues that each text, to borrow a term from Jacques Derrida, ?participates? in the Gothic in ways that both uphold the paradigm of ?unspeakability? that has come to dominate much trauma fiction, as well as push its boundaries to complicate how we think of the ethical relationship between witnessing and writing trauma. 606 $aFiction 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x21st century 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aEuropean Literature 606 $aContemporary Literature 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x20th century. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x21st century. 615 14$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aEuropean Literature. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 676 $a823.03 676 $a823.9209353 700 $aJoyce$b Ashlee$01229489 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483701703321 996 $aThe Gothic in contemporary British trauma fiction$92853863 997 $aUNINA