Gothic London: On the Capital of Urban Fantasy in Neil Gaiman, China Miéville and Peter Ackroyd

There are good reasons to call London the capital of urban fantasy. Like no other city it embodies an intertwinedness of enlightenment and modernity with notions of the occult, the mythical and the magical. The idea of an urban underworld that somehow is the dark mirror of the city is central for t...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:d4aad55770d448d3bdff50f1ba81d0fc2021-11-26T12:44:23ZGothic London: On the Capital of Urban Fantasy in Neil Gaiman, China Miéville and Peter Ackroyd10.5565/rev/brumal.4162014-7910https://doaj.org/article/d4aad55770d448d3bdff50f1ba81d0fc2017-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/brumal/article/view/416https://doaj.org/toc/2014-7910 There are good reasons to call London the capital of urban fantasy. Like no other city it embodies an intertwinedness of enlightenment and modernity with notions of the occult, the mythical and the magical. The idea of an urban underworld that somehow is the dark mirror of the city is central for the depiction of a fantastic London. I will look into three examples of urban fantasy: Neil Gaiman’s novel Neverwhere (1996), China Miéville’s story Reports of Certain Events in London (2004), and Peter Ackroyd’s novel Hawksmoor (1985) that portray London as a liminal space and a gothic heterotopia. Arno MetelingUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaarticleGeneral WorksAENESFRITPTBrumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico, Vol 5, Iss 2 (2017)
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Gothic London: On the Capital of Urban Fantasy in Neil Gaiman, China Miéville and Peter Ackroyd
description There are good reasons to call London the capital of urban fantasy. Like no other city it embodies an intertwinedness of enlightenment and modernity with notions of the occult, the mythical and the magical. The idea of an urban underworld that somehow is the dark mirror of the city is central for the depiction of a fantastic London. I will look into three examples of urban fantasy: Neil Gaiman’s novel Neverwhere (1996), China Miéville’s story Reports of Certain Events in London (2004), and Peter Ackroyd’s novel Hawksmoor (1985) that portray London as a liminal space and a gothic heterotopia.
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title Gothic London: On the Capital of Urban Fantasy in Neil Gaiman, China Miéville and Peter Ackroyd
title_short Gothic London: On the Capital of Urban Fantasy in Neil Gaiman, China Miéville and Peter Ackroyd
title_full Gothic London: On the Capital of Urban Fantasy in Neil Gaiman, China Miéville and Peter Ackroyd
title_fullStr Gothic London: On the Capital of Urban Fantasy in Neil Gaiman, China Miéville and Peter Ackroyd
title_full_unstemmed Gothic London: On the Capital of Urban Fantasy in Neil Gaiman, China Miéville and Peter Ackroyd
title_sort gothic london: on the capital of urban fantasy in neil gaiman, china miéville and peter ackroyd
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