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London Gothic : place, space and the Gothic imagination /
London has taken a central role in urban Gothic, from key canonic texts like Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dracula through modern Gothic texts to the 'tourist gothic' of rebranded gastropubs and ghost tours. As a specific category, London Gothic is b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
©2010.
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| Colección: | Continuum literary studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Anne Witchard and Laurence Phillips
- Victorians to moderns. Towards a phenomenology of urban Gothic: the example of Dickens / Julian Wolfreys ; 'A fatal freshness': mid-Victorian suburbophobia / Anne Witchard ; 'A city of nightmares': suburban anxiety in Arthur Machen's Gothic London / Amanda Mordavsky Caleb ; An occult gazetteer of Bloomsbury: an experiment in method / Roger Luckhurst
- Contemporary Prose Narratives. 'This light was pale and ghostly': Stewart home, horror and the Gothic destruction of 'London' / Alex Murray ; '[T]hat eventless realm': Hilary Mantel's Beyond black and the ghosts of the M25 / Catherine Spooner ; 'Where the evil is': the London of Derek Raymond / Nick Freeman ; Rats, floods and flowers: London's gothicized nature / Jenny Bavidge
- Sites, performance and film. Gog and Magog: guardians of the city / J.S. Mackley ; 'West End ghosts and Southwark horrors': London's Gothic tourism / Emma McEvoy ; Zombie London: unexceptionalities of the new world order / Fred Botting ; What lies beneath: the London Underground and contemporary Gothic film horror / Lawrence Phillips.