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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.
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.
18 ott 2020 · The New Urban Gothic looks to the intersections of time, space and media when examining the different and shifting meanings that arise from contemporary texts that draw on the tradition of the Victorian urban Gothic in their storytelling.
- Holly-Gale Millette
- H.Millette@soton.ac.uk
- 2020
13 set 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.
- Chad Luck
- 2013
5 mar 2021 · The scaling of design principles between objects, buildings and cities has been a prominent yet neglected aspect of twentieth century urbanism, requiring greater critical attention. The paper articulates a defense of “gothic ontology”, not as neo-revivalist style but type of praxis.
- Mark Usher
- 2021
Urban Gothic is a sub-genre of Gothic fiction, film horror, and television dealing with industrial and post-industrial urban society.
Urban Gothic literature reflects the anxieties of urbanization by representing the relationship of the individual to the city. The Gothic city is a nightmarish space which threatens one’s sense of self.
