Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers: The English Country House in the Contemporary Novel
Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers is the first study of contemporary literary representations of the English country house. The book analyses contemporary novels, including Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, Ian McEwan's Atonement and Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger by situating them in a broader context of manorial literary tradition.
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Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers: The English Country House in the Contemporary Novel
Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers is the first study of contemporary literary representations of the English country house. The book analyses contemporary novels, including Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, Ian McEwan's Atonement and Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger by situating them in a broader context of manorial literary tradition.
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Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers: The English Country House in the Contemporary Novel

Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers: The English Country House in the Contemporary Novel

by Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga
Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers: The English Country House in the Contemporary Novel

Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers: The English Country House in the Contemporary Novel

by Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga

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Overview

Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers is the first study of contemporary literary representations of the English country house. The book analyses contemporary novels, including Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, Ian McEwan's Atonement and Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger by situating them in a broader context of manorial literary tradition.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783631657157
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date: 05/26/2015
Series: Mediated Fictions: Studies in Verbal and Visual Narratives , #7
Pages: 268
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Culture at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. She is the author of a book study on Virginia Woolf’s novels (2006). Her main research interests are modernist and postmodernist fiction, semiotics of space and urban theory and representation.

Table of Contents

Contents: English country house in literature – Country house novel – Contemporary novel – Novel of manners – Gothic fiction – Metafiction – Julian Fellowes Snobs – Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst The Stranger’s Child – Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day – Sarah Waters Fingersmith – Sarah Waters The Little Stranger – Ian McEwan Atonement – Toby Litt Finding Myself.
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