Patrick McGrath and his Worlds

Madness and the Transnational Gothic
Herausgeber: Foley, Matt; Duncan, Rebecca

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection opens up new theoretical perspectives on McGrath's corpus, moving conversations around his work decisively forward and seeking to situate McGrath as a key voice in Anglophone letters in our millennial global moment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9781138311190
• ISBN-10: 1138311197
• Artikelnr.: 58410086

Autorenporträt

Dr. Matt Foley is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Manchester Met. The author of Haunting Modernisms (Palgrave, 2017), he is a member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies, the administrator of the International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prizes, and academic lead for HAUNT Manchester. He works predominantly on modernist literature, the gothic, and literary acoustics. Dr. Rebecca Duncan teaches literature in English at Stirling University. She is the author of South African Gothic (University of Wales Press, 2018), a member of Stirling's International Centre for Gothic Studies, and - from 2020 - the recipient of a Crafoord Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at Linnaeus University. She researches in postcolonial- and world-literature, speculative fiction and the gothic. .

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Sue Zlosnik
Introduction: McGrath in the World: Madness, Gothic, and Transnational
Consciousness
Rebecca Duncan and Matt Foley
Section I: Transnational McGrath
Chapter One: Writing and Reading the Spider: McGrath's Web
David Punter
Chapter Two: Martha Peake and the Madness of "Free Trade"
Evert Jan van Leeuwen
Chapter Three: "A cell without a nucleus is a ruin:" Vampiric Creations of
the Unhealthy Disabled in Patrick McGrath's "Blood Disease"
Alan Gregory
Chapter Four: Revisiting the Spanish Civil War: An Interview with Patrick
McGrath
Xavier Aldana Reyes
Section II: Theorizing McGrath
Chapter Five: Madness, Tragedy, and the Implied Reader of Patrick McGrath's
Spider
Benjamin E. Noad
Chapter Six: The Terrors of the Self: The Manipulation of Identity
Mythologies in Patrick McGrath's Novels
Daniel Southward
Chapter Seven: Patrick McGrath and Passion: The Gothic Modernism of Asylum
and beyond
Matt Foley and Rebecca Duncan
Section III: Millennial McGrath
Chapter Eight: The Price of Suffering and the Value of Remembering: Patrick
McGrath's Trauma
Michela Vanon Alliata
Chapter Nine: "You have to be a warrior to live here:" PTSD as a collective
socio-political condition in Patrick McGrath's writing
Dana Alex
Chapter Ten: The Liar, the Bitch, and the Wardrobe: Resisting Political
Terror, Anti-Semitism, and Revenants in Patrick McGrath's The Wardrobe
Mistress
Danel Olson
Afterword
Patrick McGrath