London gothic: place, space and the gothic imagination

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List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Lawrence Phillips and Anne Witchard PART I: VICTORIANS TO MODERNS AND NEO-VICTORIAN 1. Towards a Phenomenology of Urban Gothic: Consciousnous, Identity, and Subjective Experience of Place in Dickens' Journalism, Julian Wolfreys 2. 'A fatal freshness': Victorian suburbophobia, Anne Witchard (Westminster, UK) 3 \. 'The City of Resurrections': Arthur Machen's Gothic London, Amanda Mordavsky Caleb (Tennessee-Knoxville, USA) 4. A Bloomsbury Noir: A Question of Method, Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck, UK) 5. MetaVictorian Transformations, Martyn Colebrook (Hull, UK) and Mark Williams (UEA, UK) PART II: CONTEMPORARY PROSE NARRATIVES 6. 'Where the evil is': Derek Raymond's Gothic London, Nick Freeman (Loughborough, UK) 7. 'This Light was Pale and Ghostly': Stewart Home, Gentrification and the Gothic Destruction of 'London', Alex Murray (Exeter, UK) 8. '[T]hat eventless realm': Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black and the ghosts of the M25, Catherine Spooner (Lancaster, UK) 9. Rats, Floods and Flowers: London's Gothicized Nature, Jenny Bavidge (Greenwich, UK) PART III: PERFORMANCE AND FILM 10. Tourist Gothic: Performing Gothic London, Emma McEvoy (Westminster, UK) 11. Haunted Particulars: Making Gothic Site-Specific Theatre in London from The St Pancras Project to The Masque of the Red Death, Karoline Gritzner (Aberystwyth, UK) 12. Zombie London, Fred Botting (Lancaster, UK) 13. What lies beneath: London Underground and contemporary Gothic fantasy and horror, Lawrence Phillips (Northampton, UK) Index.