TY  - BOOK
AU  - Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga
PY  - 2015
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2194-5918
SN  - 9783653050066
TI  - Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers
T2  - The English Country House in the Contemporary Novel
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-05006-6
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1048941
N2  - Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers is the first study of contemporary literary representations of one of the most iconic topoi in English literature and culture – the country house. The book analyses nine contemporary novels, including Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, Ian McEwan’s Atonement, Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger and Alan Hollinghurst’s The Stranger’s Child, by situating them in a broader context of manorial literary tradition. Analysing the different traditions of the novel of manners, gothic fiction and postmodern metafiction, the book identifies three principal variants of the manorial topos, which expound the country house as the locus of varied, often contradictory meanings.
KW  - contemporary English novel, gothic fiction, postmodern metafiction, novel of manners
LA  - English
ER  -