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

DIViThe Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles/iis 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.br/DIVDIVAcknowledgements * Abbreviations * Foreword by Laurence Davies * Introduction: The Literary Mood of theiFin de Siécle/i* 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 * IndexbrAcknowledgements * Abbreviations * Foreword by Laurence Davies * Introduction: The Literary Mood of theiFin de Siécle/i* 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 * Indexbr/DIVDIVDryden 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, UKbr/DIVDIVbLinda Dryden/bis Senior Lecturer, Cultural Studies, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK.br/DIVDIViThe Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles/iis concerned with Gothic representations of London in the late nineteenth-century. Establishing that a modern Gothic literary mode relocates the traditional rural G