Peter May’s The Lewis Man and Rebecca Wait’s Our Fathers: A Scottish Gothic Reading of Island-Set Crime Fiction

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Peter May’s The Lewis Man and Rebecca Wait’s Our Fathers: A Scottish Gothic Reading of Island-Set Crime Fiction

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This article examines the intersection of crime fiction, the Gothic, and the Scottish island setting through Rebecca Wait’s psychological thriller Our Fathers (2020) and Peter May’s detective novel The Lewis Man (2012). The analysis illustrates how the two novels incorporate selected elements typical of the Scottish Gothic: the taxing process of the construction of identity, the notion of the divided self, the impossibility of forgetting the past, and the ways in which history can be written on and read from the body. In Our Fathers, the fictional island of Litta becomes a claustrophobic space that reinforces the protagonist’s haunted inheritance and struggle with paternal legacy. In contrast, The Lewis Man situates its mystery within the sublime landscapes of the Outer Hebrides, where peat bogs and fragmented memory render personal and national histories simultaneously fragile and recoverable. Ultimately, both texts illustrate how Scottish island-set crime fiction mobilizes Gothic aesthetics to interrogate questions of history, identity, and place. The paper suggests that the island setting not only supports but intensifies Gothic concerns, making the island a particularly productive locus for contemporary Scottish Gothic and crime writing alike.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Peter May’s The Lewis Man and Rebecca Wait’s Our Fathers: A Scottish Gothic Reading of Island-Set Crime Fiction

Popis výsledku anglicky

This article examines the intersection of crime fiction, the Gothic, and the Scottish island setting through Rebecca Wait’s psychological thriller Our Fathers (2020) and Peter May’s detective novel The Lewis Man (2012). The analysis illustrates how the two novels incorporate selected elements typical of the Scottish Gothic: the taxing process of the construction of identity, the notion of the divided self, the impossibility of forgetting the past, and the ways in which history can be written on and read from the body. In Our Fathers, the fictional island of Litta becomes a claustrophobic space that reinforces the protagonist’s haunted inheritance and struggle with paternal legacy. In contrast, The Lewis Man situates its mystery within the sublime landscapes of the Outer Hebrides, where peat bogs and fragmented memory render personal and national histories simultaneously fragile and recoverable. Ultimately, both texts illustrate how Scottish island-set crime fiction mobilizes Gothic aesthetics to interrogate questions of history, identity, and place. The paper suggests that the island setting not only supports but intensifies Gothic concerns, making the island a particularly productive locus for contemporary Scottish Gothic and crime writing alike.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies

ISSN

1218-7364

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

31

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

HU - Maďarsko

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

393-407

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105025531534