In Darkest London: The Gothic Cityscape in Victorian Literature

by Jamieson Ridenhour

Book Overview

In the late 1830s, London began appearing as a site of literary terror, and by the end of the century a large proportion of the important Victorian "Gothic revival" novels were set in the city. In Darkest London is a full-length study of the Victorian Urban Gothic, a pervasive mode that appears not only in straightforward novels of terror but also in the works of mainstream authors. Placing the conventions of the Gothic form in their proper historical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810887770
• ISBN13: 9780810887770
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.3"