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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Main Author: | Arno Meteling |
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Language: | EN ES FR IT PT |
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2017
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Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/d4aad55770d448d3bdff50f1ba81d0fc |
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