Post-Gothic Traces in Ian McEwan’s Solar
Post-Gothic Traces in Ian McEwan’s Solar

Summary/Abstract: Revolving around the notion of climate change as the premise of life extinction scenarios, with all the anxieties activated by the prospect of humanity’s end, Solar, McEwan’s novel of 2010, captures – in a post-Gothic narrative frame – the global debates around modes of producing alternative energy that may ensure the survival of the planet. Filtered through the cultural lens of parody and pastiche, the Gothic mode is accommodated in Ian McEwan’s narrative of climate catastrophe within the threefold casing of (post)domestic Gothic, Globalgothic and Ecogothic.

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