London Gothic Place, Space and the Gothic Imagination

by Phillips, Lawrence; Witchard, Anne

• ISBN13: 9781441106827
• ISBN10: 1441106820
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-25
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

An exploration of London and gothic representation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through a variety of media.

Author Biography

Lawrence Phillips is Reader in English Literature at the University of Northampton, UK. He is the founding editor of the academic e-journal Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London (WWW. literarylondon.org) and an organizer of the annual Literary London Conference which has run since 2002. Anne Witchard is a Lecturer in the department of English and Linguistics at the University of Westminster, UK. She is author of Thomas Burke's Dark Chinoiserie (Ashgate, 2009)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Victorians to Moderns
Toward a Phenomenology of Urban Gothic: The Example of Dickens	p. 9
'A Fatal Freshness': Mid-Victorian Suburbophobia	p. 23
'A City of Nightmares': Suburban Anxiety in Arthur Machen's London Gothic	p. 41
An Occult Gazetteer of Bloomsbury: An Experiment in Method	p. 50
Contemporary Prose Narratives
'This Light was Pale and Ghostly': Stewart Home, Horror and the Gothic Destruction of 'London'	p. 65
'[T]hat Eventless Realm': Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black and the Ghosts of the M25	p. 80
'Where The Evil Is': The London of Derek Raymond	p. 91
Rats, Floods and Flowers: London's Gothicized Nature	p. 103
Sites, Performance and Film
Gog and Magog: Guardians of the City	p. 121
'West End Ghosts and Southwark Horrors': London's Gothic Tourism	p. 140
Zombie London: Unexceptionalities of the New World Order	p. 153
What Lies Beneath: The London Underground and Contemporary Gothic Film Horror	p. 172
Index	p. 183
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