London Gothic

Anne Witchard is a Lecturer in the department of English and Linguistics at the University of Westminster, UK. She is author of Thomas Burke's Dark Chinoiserie (Ashgate, 2009). Lawrence Phillips is Professor in English Literature at the University of Northampton, UK. He is the founding editor of the academic e-journal Literary London Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London (www.literarylondon.org) and an organiser of the annual Literary London Conference which has run since 2002.

• 1. Introduction Anne Witchard and Laurence Phillips; Part I: Victorians to Moderns; 2. Towards a Phenomenology of Urban Gothic: The Example of Dickens Julian Wolfreys; 3. 'A fatal freshness': Mid-Victorian Suburbophobia Anne Witchard; 4. 'A City of Nightmares': Suburban Anxiety in Arthur Machen's Gothic London Amanda Mordavsky Caleb; 5. An Occult Gazetteer of Bloomsbury: An Experiment in Method Roger Luckhurst; Part II: Contemporary Prose Narratives; 6. 'This Light was Pale and Ghostly': Stewart Home, Horror and the Gothic Destruction of 'London' Alex Murray; 7. '[T]hat eventless realm': Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black and the Ghosts of the M25 Catherine Spooner; 8. 'Where The Evil Is': The London of Derek Raymond Nick Freeman; 9. Rats, Floods and Flowers: London's Gothicized Nature Jenny Bavidge; Part III: Performance and Film; 10. Gog and Magog: Guardians of the city J.S. Mackley; 11. 'West End Ghosts and Southwark Horrors': London'd Gothic Tourism Emma McEvoy; 12. Zoombie London: Unexceptionalities of the New World Order Fred Botting; 13. What lies beneath: The London Underground and Contemporary Gothic Film Horror Lawrence Phillips; Notes on Contributors; Index.

‘Anne Witchard and Lawrence Phillips's compelling collection of essays locates the Gothic from the late 19th century to the present squarely in London geography from Bloomsbury to the suburbs. London Gothic develops a social analysis of the Gothic through novels, film and performance by drawing on a stimulating array of theoretical perspectives, from urban mappings to ecocriticism, thus contributing significantly to the study of the representation of London in literature and culture.'