‘The Tangled Confluence’: Hybrid Accounts of Madness in Will Self’s The Quantity Theory of Insanity and Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love

Will Self’s The Quantity Theory of Insanity and Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love both feature attempts by arch rationalists to apprehend, even understand insanity, which constantly threatens to overturn all established systems of knowledge and belief. Madness is often depicted by Self’s and McEwan’s narra...

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Main Author: Diane Gagneret
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2017-06-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/3579