Urban Gothic of the Second World War: Dark London

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
1 Introduction: The Urban Gothic of the British Home Front......Page 14
London's urban Gothic......Page 17
Fractured narrative, fractured nation......Page 28
2 Nightmare City: Gothic Flânerie and Wartime Spectacle in Henry Green and Roy Fuller......Page 42
The flâneur's use of the city......Page 43
Gothic flânerie: psychological disintegration......Page 45
"Bright, dead Dolls": flânerie and wartime London......Page 46
Henry Green, Caught......Page 49
Perilous light......Page 51
London's imperial legacies......Page 53
Hallucinations of women in urban space......Page 58
Monstrous city......Page 62
Barbed wire and locked doors: internment camps and asylums......Page 65
Anna Kavan......Page 72
Graham Greene's The Ministry of Fear (1943)......Page 87
4 Gothic, Mechanised Ghosts: Wartime Industry in Inez Holden, Anne Ridler and Diana Murray Hill......Page 96
Women's wartime work......Page 99
"A hideous yellow gloom"......Page 103
Deadly spaces and disintegrating narrative......Page 114
5 Elizabeth Bowen's Uncanny Houses......Page 118
Homes and nation......Page 119
Constructing the home front......Page 120
Nation and the domestic uncanny......Page 124
"Strange growths": uncanny life in Bowen's interiors......Page 126
"Dark ate the outlines of the house": Bowen's national position......Page 132
"The infected zone": time and the uncanny......Page 134
Female cruelty in the domestic interior......Page 140
National narratives of the dead......Page 143
City of the dead......Page 148
"Murdered Bodies": anthropomorphic ruins in neo-Romantic art criticism......Page 150
Mervyn Peake's wartime writing......Page 155
Resistant mourning......Page 170
"Crying with phantom tongue": poetry that resists consolation......Page 173
Notes......Page 176
References......Page 185
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I......Page 214
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