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Urban Gothic. Poster for an 1880s dramatization of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Urban Gothic is a sub-genre of Gothic fiction, film horror, and television dealing with industrial and post-industrial urban society.
Urban Gothic is a subgenre that weaves traditional Gothic tenets with the grim, often dystopian aspects of city life. Its roots are deeply entrenched in Victorian Gothic literature, where the burgeoning industrial cities provided a new context for narratives fraught with horror and romanticism.
Urban Gothic is a sub-genre of Gothic fiction, film horror, and television dealing with industrial and post-industrial urban society. It was pioneered in the mid-19th century in Britain, Ireland, and the United States, before being developed in British novels such as Robert Louis Stevenson 's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and ...
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Urban Gothic is a subgenre of Gothic fiction, film horror and television dealing with industrial and post-industrial urban society. It was pioneered in the mid-19th century in Britain, Ireland and the United States and developed in British novels such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Irish novels ...
Urban Gothic: With Ania Sowinski, Kelle Spry, William Mannering, Terrence Hardiman. Behind the facade of London's shiny dockside developments, its designer boutiques and coffee bars lie forgotten dark corners and darker secrets. It's a city where anything can happen and being young and pretty won't always save you.
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see info. 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. The New Urban Gothic explores our anxieties and preoccupation with social inequalities.
Sep 13, 2013 · The genre of urban gothic literature emerged in America over the first half of the nineteenth century. Characterized by sensational descriptions of the crowded, crime‐ridden antebellum city, these novels gave voice to widespread American anxieties about the accelerating pace of urban life.
