Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers

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 t