Taboo and transgression : reconfiguring the monstrous in contemporary British fiction

This thesis considers the remaindered other in contemporary British society, and the representation of that other in British fiction since 1968. The liberal approach to otherness that has arguably been a defining characteristic of the British identity since the Second World War has, I argue, always...

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Main Author: Byatt, Jim
Published: University of Warwick 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.526172