Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles

Stevenson, Wilde and Wells

AvL. Dryden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

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"The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles" is concerned with Gothic representations of London in the late 19th century. Establishing that a modern Gothic literary mode relocates the traditional rural Gothic to the late 19th century metropolis, this volume explores the cultural history of London in the 19th century. The subsequent discussion of the Gothic fictions of Stevenson, Wilde and Wells offers new perspectives from which to assess the impact of contemporary perceptions of London as a Gothicized space on the works of these novelists.

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Utgivningsdatum:2003-09-02
Mått:140 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt:418 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:220
Upplaga:2003
Förlag:Palgrave USA
ISBN:9781403905109

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LINDA DRYDEN is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Napier University, Edinburgh, UK. She has published papers in the area of literature and cultural studies, and is the author of Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). Dr Dryden is currently working as co-editor of a colume about Conrad's publishing history. AE(00): Foreword by LAURENCE DAVIES

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"Dryden skillfully unravels the network of cultural, political, scientific and historical forces at work in the Gothic fictions of Stevenson, Wilde and Wells. A significant contribution to literary history." - Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck College, UK

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Acknowledgements * Abbreviations * Foreword by Laurence Davies * Introduction: The Literary Mood of the Fin de Si�cle * The Modern Gothic * The City Real and Imagined * 'City of Dreadful Night': Stevenson's Gothic London * Oscar Wilde: Gothic Ironies and Terrible Dualities * 'The coming terror': Wells's Outcast London and the Modern Gothic * Epilogue: Gothic Futures * Notes * Bibliography * Index