Clive Bloom: London Uncanny, Gebunden
London Uncanny
- A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction
- Verlag:
- Bloomsbury Academic, 02/2025
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781350424036
- Artikelnummer:
- 11891363
- Umfang:
- 223 Seiten
- Sonstiges:
- 16 bw illus
- Gewicht:
- 506 g
- Maße:
- 237 x 160 mm
- Stärke:
- 22 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 20.2.2025
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
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.
Biografie
Clive Bloom Emeritus Professor of English and American Studies at Middlesex University, UK. Widely published and Series Editor of Palgrave Macmillan's Crime Files series, he is the author of Literature, Politics and Intellectual Crisis in Britain Today (Palgrave Macmillan, 2000) and Cult Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan 1996), amongst many other titles.