London Uncanny: A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction - Couverture rigide

Bloom, Clive

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ISBN 10 : 135042403X ISBN 13 : 9781350424036

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Synopsis

From Kensington to the East End, under candlelight, gas lamp and then neon signs, London is both a bustling physical metropolis and a stirring psychic encounter. The most depraved depictions of London in fiction, film, poetry, television and theatre have irrevocably merged with the reality of its dark history, creating a phantasmagoria defined by murder, vice and the unnatural. In this panoptic look at the capital at its most eerie and macabre, Clive Bloom takes a tour of Gothic London's uncanny literature, arcane events and its infamous and imagined geographies.

From David Bowie to T S Eliot, Thomas de Quincey to Aleister Crowley, the prophetess Joanna Southcott to the 'ghosts' of Abba and the worlds of Neil Gaiman and Clive Barker, these are the figures that populate a city lost in fog and blind alleys, where the dead can be raised, the living sacrificed and the clandestine thrive. Suturing together fact and fantasy, London Uncanny presents the urban landscape of the capital as a space of wonder and madness, haunted by its past and haunting the present. Stalking through disease and degeneracy, death and murder, spiritualism, lunacy and the occult, Bloom crafts a singular, integrated concept of a London where dreams and nightmares meet.

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À propos de l?auteur

Clive Bloom is Professor in Residence at Hull University, Emeritus Professor at Middlesex University, UK, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Western Timisoara, Romania. A feature writer for The Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Irish Times and the London Evening Standard, he is the author of many books on topics from literature to politics, including the London political histories Violent City (2003) and Riot City (2012). An editor of series on crime and the Gothic for multiple publishers and an international key-note speaker, Bloom has won a Bram Stoker Award, been shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award and curated exhibitions on Jack the Ripper and the Siege of Sidney Street for the Museum of London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 135042403X
• ISBN 13: 9781350424036
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible