“In a Glass Grotesquely”: Patrick McGrath’s Quaint Old England

Patrick McGrath’s new Gothic literature owes a great part of its early success to the singular, often gleefully weird depictions of England it offers, such as the bleak and misty Berkshire landscapes of Ceck Marsh in The Grotesque (1989). Although influences such as Evelyn Waugh’s have sometimes bee...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jocelyn Dupont
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2009-11-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/3685