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London Uncanny
- A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction
Engelsk Hardback
London Uncanny
- A Gothic Guide to the Capital in Weird History and Fiction
Engelsk Hardback

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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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9781350424036
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
135042403X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
20 feb 2025
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
241mm
Højde:
163mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato:
20 feb 2025
Forfatter(e):
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