Abstract

Seaboyer argues that Ian McEwan's novel The Comfort of Strangers operates on two levels. It is an unheimlich tale of gothic horror that turns on sadomasochism and ritualized murder, but at the same time, is an engaged meditation on the historical, cultural, and psychoanalytic narratives that solicit faith in the family and the adequacy of the male subject.

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