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About this book. This book examines writing in the Gothic mode which subverts the dominant national narrative of the British home front. Instead of seeing wartime experience as a site of fellowship and emotional resilience, Elizabeth Bowen, Anna Kavan, Mervyn Peake, Roy Fuller and others depict shadowy figures on the margin of the nation.
Urban Gothic literature reflects the anxieties of urbanization by representing the relationship of the individual to the city. The Gothic city is a nightmarish space which threatens one’s sense of self. It is replete with the problems of urbanity: rising crime, declining morality and the blurring of social boundaries.
18 de oct. de 2020 · Responding to the ‘spatial turn’, urban Gothic criticism has attempted to move away from a (predominant) emphasis on psychological interiority to appreciate the importance of spatialised and historicised understandings (See Phillips and Witchard 2012; Mighall 2003) in considering the way specific social and environmental factors play an important role in the creation of an Urban Gothic milieu.
20 de dic. de 2023 · 3. Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield. A winding tale full of twists and turns, Once Upon a River is one of the best modern Gothic novels. It is wistful, beautifully written, perfectly paced, slow and meandering on the surface, like the river in its title. The art of storytelling is at the heart of this book.
Necromance: Directed by Ian Knox. With Susan Harrison, Alastair Bruce, Clare Buckfield, Catherine Bailey. A young girl has a crush on a Goth rebel in her school who is also into necrophilia. She kills herself, then comes back from the dead in an attempt to attract him to her.
10 de ene. de 2006 · Urban Gothic is a series of 1/2 hour contemporary Urban Horror tales. Lean, sexy, fast and furious. Slick, funny, and always scary. It's dragging British horror kicking and screaming out of the museum and back to the city. Episodes in order of air time :
4 de jun. de 2014 · Urban Gothic is a British Horror Anthology from the year 2000.Series 1, Episode 8 'Cry Wolf'
