The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles: Stevenson, Wilde and Wells

by L. Dryden

Overview

The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles is concerned with Gothic representations of London in the late nineteenth-century. Establishing that a modern Gothic literary mode relocates the traditional rural Gothic to the late nineteenth-century metropolis, this volume explores the cultural history of London in the nineteenth 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403905109
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/02/2003
Edition description:	2003
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Linda Dryden is Senior Lecturer, Cultural Studies, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"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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