Trauma and Ethics in the Novels of Graham Swift: No Short-Cuts to Salvation

by Stef Craps

"This book offers a critical reading of the novels of Graham Swift in light of recent developments in literary theory and criticism. It shows how the novels elaborate an ethics of alterity by means of a detailed study of one of Swift's most persistent and fascinating - yet all too often ignored - concerns: the traumatic experience of reality." By providing a wide-ranging and in-depth analysis of Swift's novels against the background of the 'ethical turn' in literary studies and the emergence of trauma theory, this book extends and enriches our understanding of what is arguably one of the most significant literary oeuvres of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

230 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2005