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London uncanny a gothic guide to the capital in weird history and fiction

"London is both a physical metropolis and a psychic encounter. Depraved depictions of the city in fiction, film, poetry, television and theatre have merged with its dark history, creating a phantasmagoria of murder, vice and the unnatural. In this panoptic look at England's capital at its most eerie...

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Main Author: Bloom, Clive (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
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Curiosities and wonders > England > London > History.
London (England) > In popular culture.
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Summary:"London is both a physical metropolis and a psychic encounter. Depraved depictions of the city in fiction, film, poetry, television and theatre have merged with its dark history, creating a phantasmagoria of murder, vice and the unnatural. In this panoptic look at England's capital at its most eerie and macabre, Clive Bloom takes a tour of Gothic London's uncanny literature, arcane events and its infamous geographies. With inhabitants from Jack the Ripper and Aleister Crowley to Sweeney Todd and Count Dracula, Dark City presents London as haunted by its past and haunting the present"--
Physical Description:pages ; cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781350424036
135042403X
Author Notes:Clive Bloom is Professor in Residence at the Larkin Centre for Poetry and Creative Writing at Hull University, UK; Emeritus Professor at Middlesex University, UK; Research Fellow at New York University, USA and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Western Timisoara, Romania. A feature writer for The Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Irish Times and the London Evening Standard, Bloom is the author of many books on topics from literature to politics, including the political histories of London Violent City and Riot City . He has won a Bram Stoker Award, been shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award twice and is editor of series on crime and the Gothic for multiple publishing house. An international key note speaker he has given addresses to the Association of Forensic Psychiatrists and Gresham College, jointly curated two exhibitions, on Jack the Ripper and the Siege of Sidney Street at the Museum of London and has advised the British Cabinet Office on publish disorder issues.

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