Urban Gothic of the Second World War

1. Introduction: The Urban Gothic of the British Home Front
Sara Wasson

2. Nightmare City: Gothic Flânerie and Wartime Spectacle in Henry Green and Roy Fuller
Sara Wasson

3. Carceral City, Cryptic Signs: Wartime Fiction by Anna Kavan and Graham Greene
Sara Wasson

4. Gothic, Mechanised Ghosts: Wartime Industry in Inez Holden, Anne Ridler and Diana Murray Hill
Sara Wasson

5. Elizabeth Bowen’s Uncanny Houses
Sara Wasson

6. “The Rubbish Pile and the Grave”: Nation and the Abject in John Piper, Graham Sutherland and Mervyn Peake
Sara Wasson

7. Afterword: The Politics of Lamentation
Sara Wasson

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Social History, Cultural History, History of Britain and Ireland, Cultural Studies