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London gothic : place, space and the Gothic imagination
- Title
- London gothic : place, space and the Gothic imagination / edited by Lawrence Phillips and Anne Witchard.
- Publication
- London : Continuum, 2010.
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- Description
- ix, 193 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "The first book to focus on Gothic representations of London, offering writing from established and new scholars reading London Gothic as it is manifested in a variety of media and through varied critical approaches."--Cover.
- Series Statement
- Continuum literary studies
- Uniform Title
- Continuum literary studies.
- Subject
- English literature > History and criticism
- Gothic revival (Literature) > England > London
- Literature
- English literature
- Gothic revival (Literature)
- Intellectual life
- Gothic novel
- London Motiv
- Roman > englischer > London. > Motiv
- Roman > englischer > Motiv > Das Unheimliche
- Das Unheimliche > Motiv > Roman > englischer
- Das Unheimliche > Motiv > Film > Grossbritannien
- Film > Motiv > Das Unheimliche > Grossbritannien
- Film > Motiv > London > Grossbritannien
- Gothic novel
- Schauerliteratur
- Englisch
- Motiv
- London (England) > In literature
- London (England) > Intellectual life
- England > London
- London
- London > Motiv > Roman > englischer
- London > Motiv > Film > Grossbritannien
- London
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781441106827
- 1441106820
- LCCN
- 2010537427
- 40018756316
- OCLC
- ocn785552090
- 785552090
- SCSB-14508607
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library