The New Urban Gothic: Global Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene

Book Overview

This collection explores global dystopic, grotesque and retold narratives of degeneration, ecological and economic ruin, dystopia, and inequality in contemporary fictions set in the urban space. Divided into three sections--Identities and Histories, Ruin and Residue, and Global Gothic--The New Urban Gothic explores our anxieties and preoccupation with social inequalities, precarity and the peripheral that are found in so many new fictions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030437795
• ISBN13: 9783030437794
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"