Patrick McGrath

Sue Zlosnik

Description

Patrick McGrath is one of Britain's foremost contemporary novelists but very little has been written about his work to date. This new book offers readings of McGrath's fiction informed by recent scholarship and evaluates his creative contribution to the continuation of the Gothic tradition into the twenty-first century.
Introduction Playing with Gothic The Transgressive Self Worlds New and Old Afterword: Exorcizing the Ghosts of the Gothic?

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• Idioma inglés
• English
• Romance
• Gothic
• Anglais

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 avril 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780708323762
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

PATRICK McGRATH

S ERIES P REFACE

Gothic Authors: Critical Revisions is dedicated to publishing innovative introductory guides to writers of the Gothic.The series explores how new critical approaches and perspectives can help us to recontextualize an author’s work in a way that is both accessible and informative.The series publishes work that is of interest to students of all levels and teachers of the literary Gothic and cultural history.

S ERIES E DITORS

Andrew Smith, University of Glamorgan Benjamin Fisher, University of Mississippi

E DITORIAL B OARD

Kent Ljungquist,Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts Richard Fusco, St Joseph’s University, Philadelphia David Punter, University of Bristol Angela Wright, University of Sheffield Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona

GOTHIC AUTHORS: CRITICAL REVISIONS

Patrick McGrath

Sue Zlosnik

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS C A R D I F F 2 0 1 1

© Sue Zlosnik, 2011

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British Library CIP Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978-0-7083-2375-5 (hardback) ISBN 978-0-7083-2374-8 (paperback) e-ISBN 978-0-7083-2376-2

The right of Sue Zlosnik to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Typeset in Wales by Eira Fenn Gaunt, Cardiff Printed by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham,Wiltshire

In loving memory of my mother, Elsie Wealleans Peters

A CKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Without the inspiration of the International Gothic Association and its conferences, this book would never have been written. I am grateful to Manchester Metropolitan University for giving me a term’s relief from Head of Department duties and especially grateful to Berthold Schoene and Ann Holmes who saw the need and made it happen.Thank you to excellent colleagues Mike Bradshaw and Linnie Blake who looked after everything in my absence – and to all the members of the Department of English, without whom life would be much less interesting. Andrew Smith and Benjamin Fisher, the general editors of this series, deserve a special mention. Special thanks too to Avril Horner, my long-time collaborator, who has been so supportive of this solo enterprise. Most of all, I am, as ever, indebted to my family – my three sons, James, Sam and Tom, and my husband, John – for more than I can say. Finally, Patrick McGrath himself has taken a keen interest in the project and has been more than willing to answer my questions without attempting in any way to influence what I was writing.Thank you, Patrick.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1

Playing with Gothic

2 The Transgressive Self

3 Worlds New and Old

C ONTENTS

4 Afterword: Exorcizing the ghosts of the Gothic

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

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