The new urban gothic : global gothic in the age of the Anthropocene / Holly-Gale Millette, Ruth Heholt, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Millette, Holly-Gale.

Heholt, Ruth.

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

Palgrave gothic series

Palgrave Gothic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

Goth culture (Subculture).

Popular culture.

Communication.

Environmental sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

System Details:

text file PDF

Contents:

Introduction: The New Urban Gothic - Holly-Gale Millette and Ruth Heholt

Section One - Urban Gothic Bodies

Introductory Overview: 'Urban Gothic, A Retrospective' - Julian Wolfreys

Chapter One: Paulina Palmer, '"I hide a great secret. One that marks me out as grotesque": Freaks, Monstrosity and Secrets in Victorian London'

Chapter Two: Simon Bacon, 'The Degenerating City: The Gothicized Disabled Body as Nexus of Pollution in the Modern Urban Space as Depicted in The Strain Trilogy'

Chapter Three: Wymar Strydom, 'Queer sockets: Electricity as Relationality in the New Urban Gothic'

Chapter Four: Martyn Colebrook, 'The City and the City: Monstrous Urbanities in L.A. Noire and This is the Police'

Chapter Five: R. M. Francis, 'A Very Queer Black Country'

Section Two - Urban Gothic Ruin

Introductory Overview: 'New Directions: Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene' - Holly-Gale Millette

Chapter Six: Madelon Hoedt, '"Lord, what a splendid world we ruined": The city and the underground in Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light'

Chapter Seven: Karl Bell, 'The City of (Dreadful) Light: The New Urban Gothic Mindscape in China Miéville's The Last Days of New Paris'

Chapter Eight: Tanya Krzywinska, '"Everything is True" A Weird Tale: Urban Gothic meets Urban Myth in Multiplayer Online Game, The Secret World'

Chapter Nine: Garth Sabo, '"A Weapon in the Cracks": Wasteways Between Worlds in the New Urban Gothic'

Chapter Ten: Leila Taylor, 'The Rust Belt Ruin and the Gothic Genius Loci of Detroit'

Section Three - New Global Gothic and Urban Hauntings

Introductory Overview: 'Global Gothic - Urban Hauntings' - Ruth Heholt

Chapter Eleven: Gina Wisker, 'Singapore: Skyscrapers and Ghosts, Pontianaks and Pangolins in the Night'

Chapter Twelve: Anne-Marie Lopez, 'Red Light East: Spaces of Corruption and Female Exploitation in Global Noir'

Chapter Thirteen: Michael Fuchs, 'Never Accept

Always Question: Colonialism, Capitalism, and Neo-Victorian London in The Order: 1886'

Chapter Fourteen: Kwasu Tembo, 'Cities of Night and Distant Stars: The Gothico-Surreal Aesthetic in Yoshiaki Kawajiri's Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) and Mamoru Oshii's Angel's Egg (1985)'

Chapter Fifteen: Molly Slavin, '"In Those Days The Little City of Srinigar Died With the Light": The Ministry of Utmost Happiness as New Urban Gothic'

Chapter Sixteen: Xavier Alanda Reyes, 'Gothic Barcelona, Barcelona Gothic: Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marketing and the Legacy of the Francoist Past'.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 4, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Millette, Holly-Gale The New Urban Gothic : Global Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene

ISBN:

9783030437770

3030437779

Publisher Number:

99986450508

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