London Gothic

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 becoming as important for understanding ourselves today as it has been for thinking about the cultural productions of the late-nineteenth century. This is the first book to focus on Gothic representations of London, offering a range of essays from established and new scholars reading London Gothic as it is manifested in a variety of media and through varied critical approaches.

ISBN	1441106820	Pages	204
ISBN13	9781441106827 (What's this?)	Weight (grammes)	465
Publisher	Continuum Publishing Corporation	Published in	New York
Imprint	Continuum Publishing Corporation	Series title	Continuum Literary Studies
Format	Hardback	Height (mm)	234
Publication date	23 Sep 2010	Width (mm)	156
DEWEY	820.9358421	Spine width (mm)	12
DEWEY edition	DC22	Academic level	Postgraduate

	List of Illustrations
	Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1	Introduction	1
	Part One: Victorians to Moderns by Lawrence Phillips
Chapter 2	Toward a Phenomenology of Urban Gothic: The Example of Dickens by Lawrence Phillips	9
Chapter 3	'A Fatal Freshness': Mid-Victorian Suburbophobia. by Julian Worms	23
Chapter 4	'A City of Nightmares': Suburban Anxiety in Arthur Machen's London Gothic by Anne Witchard	41
Chapter 5	An Occult Gazetteer of Bloomsbury: An Experiment in Method by Amanda Mordaysky Caleb	50
	Part Two: Contemporary Prose Narratives by Roger Luckhurst
Chapter 6	'This Light was Pale and Ghostly': Stewart Home, Horror and the Gothic Destruction of 'London' by Roger Luckhurst	65
Chapter 7	'[T]hat Eventless Realm': Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black and the Ghosts of the M25 by Alex Murray	80
Chapter 8	'Where The Evil Is': The London of Derek Raymond by Catherine Spooner	91
Chapter 9	Rats, Floods and Flowers: London's Gothicized Nature by Nick Freeman	103
	Part Three: Sites, Performance and Film by Jenny Bavidge
Chapter 10	Gog and Magog: Guardians of the City by Jenny Bavidge	121
Chapter 11	'West End Ghosts and Southwark Horrors': London's Gothic Tourism by J.S. Mackley	140
Chapter 12	Zombie London: Unexceptionalities of the New World Order by Emma McEvoy	153
Chapter 13	What Lies Beneath: The London Underground and Contemporary Gothic Film Horror by Fred Boiling	172
	Index by Lawrence Phillips	183

Useful for scholars of the Gothic as a whole or studies of the city of London, London Gothic provides a fascinating look into the complicated narrative of the city's multifaceted past and present.--Sanford Lakoff

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