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The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles

Stevenson, Wilde and Wells

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  • © 2003

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  1. Linda Dryden
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: the Literary Mood of the Fin de Siècle

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 1-18

  3. The Modern Gothic

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 19-44

  4. The City: London, Real and Imagined

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 45-73

  5. ‘City of Dreadful Night’: Stevenson’s Gothic London

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 74-109

  6. Oscar Wilde: Gothic Ironies and Terrible Dualities

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 110-146

  7. The Coming Terror’: Wells’s Outcast London and the Modern Gothic

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 147-185

  8. Epilogue: Gothic Futures

    • Linda Dryden
    Pages 186-190

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 191-220
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The Modern Gothic and Literary Doubles is concerned with Gothic representations of London in the late 19th century. Establishing that a modern Gothic literary mode relocates the traditional rural Gothic to the late 19th century metropolis, this volume explores the cultural history of London in the 19th century. The subsequent discussion of the Gothic fictions of Stevenson, Wilde and Wells offers new perspectives from which to assess the impact of contemporary perceptions of London as a Gothicized space on the works of these novelists.

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"Dryden skillfully unravels the network of cultural, political, scientific and historical forces at work in the Gothic fictions of Stevenson, Wilde and Wells. A significant contribution to literary history." - Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck College, UK

About the author

Linda Dryden is Senior Lecturer, Cultural Studies, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK.

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