Table of Contents

Introduction, James Peacock and Tim Lustig 1. "Rational Dependent Animals": The "Syndrome Syndrome" in Recent Fiction, Patricia Waugh 2. Mapping the Post-Postmodern Syndrome Novel, Stephen J. Burn 3. From Syndrome to Sincerity: Benjamin Kunkel’s Indecision, Adam Kelly 4. "We learned to tell our story walking" or, Tugging the Boat: Tourette’s and Urban Space in Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn, James Peacock 5. The Pathologies of Mobility: the Genetic/ Generic Disorders of Audrey Niffenegger’s Time Machine, Brian Baker 6. Syndrome, Symptom and Trauma Chains in the Post-9/11 Novel, Bent Sørensen 7. Mind and Brain: The Representation of Trauma in Martin Amis’s Yellow Dog and Ian McEwan's Saturday, Nick Bentley 8. Cartoon Symptomology: The Visible, the Readable and the Preventable, N.R. Lawrence 9. "Two-way traffic"? Syndrome as Symbol in Richard Powers’ The Echo Maker, Tim Lustig 10. "I wanted unheimlich … but of the right kind. Strangeness and strangerness without the blank despair": Trauma and Travel in the Works of Jenny Diski, Joanna Price Two Responses, Flora Vaccarino and Lisetta Lovett Annotated Bibliography I: Primary Materials, Nicola Brindley Annotated Bibliography II: Secondary Materials, Hannah Merry Keywords, Cat Burton-Cartledge

About the Author

James Peacock is Lecturer in English and American Literature at Keele University, UK.


T.J. Lustig is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Keele University, UK.