Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square and the Landscapes of Fascism

If Patrick Hamilton’s name is recognised at all these days, then it is for his stage thrillers Rope (1929) and Gaslight (1938). Still played in repertory, these may be his best-known works but are hardly typical of his output. Hamilton had been a published writer since his early twenties and Hangover Square (1941) was his eighth novel. Like the preceding novels, it covers much of the same thematic and topographic territory. It is a world of boarding houses in unfashionable parts of London, pu...