The New Urban Gothic: Introduction
The New Urban Gothic: Introduction
The book opens with a discussion of how the global economic systems of the neoliberal period have exploited our monstrous desires, power, greed and inequalities to such a degree as to have wreaked unrepairable and irreversible damage on our planet. Issues of toxicity, the flows and breaks in urban life, what constitutes inclusion or exclusion, residue and hauntings and precarious urbanities have now all found a way into our Gothic fictions. Examining representations across many different media forms, this introduction to The New Urban Gothic introduces the reader to how our dystopic and grotesque imaginings use the episteme of the Anthropocene to critique the darker side of our sociocultural experience. A particular focus of this introduction is the role of the post-human in this discourse and how anti-landscapes–and anxieties over those anti-landscapes—signal the unsustainability of our human communities.
Gothic Studies, Posthumanism, Anthropocene, Urban Studies, Popular Culture, Intersectionality
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Millette, Holly-Gale
909906ff-426b-47ab-a71a-5788ea36c213
2020
Millette, Holly-Gale
909906ff-426b-47ab-a71a-5788ea36c213
Millette, Holly-Gale
(2020)
The New Urban Gothic: Introduction.
In,
Millette, Holly-Gale and Heholt, Ruth
(eds.)
The new urban gothic:: Global gothic in the age of the anthropocene.
(Palgrave Gothic)
Basingstoke.
Palgrave Macmillan, .
(doi:10.1007/978-3-030-43777-0).
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The book opens with a discussion of how the global economic systems of the neoliberal period have exploited our monstrous desires, power, greed and inequalities to such a degree as to have wreaked unrepairable and irreversible damage on our planet. Issues of toxicity, the flows and breaks in urban life, what constitutes inclusion or exclusion, residue and hauntings and precarious urbanities have now all found a way into our Gothic fictions. Examining representations across many different media forms, this introduction to The New Urban Gothic introduces the reader to how our dystopic and grotesque imaginings use the episteme of the Anthropocene to critique the darker side of our sociocultural experience. A particular focus of this introduction is the role of the post-human in this discourse and how anti-landscapes–and anxieties over those anti-landscapes—signal the unsustainability of our human communities.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 18 October 2020
Published date: 2020
Keywords:
Gothic Studies, Posthumanism, Anthropocene, Urban Studies, Popular Culture, Intersectionality
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/468017
ISSN: 2634-6214
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Holly-Gale Millette
Editor:
Ruth Heholt
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