The New Urban Gothic by Holly-Gale Millette

The New Urban Gothic by Holly-Gale Millette

This collection explores global dystopic, grotesque and retold narratives of degeneration, ecological and economic ruin, dystopia, and inequality in contemporary fictions set in the urban space. Divided into three sections—Identities and Histories, Ruin and Residue, and Global Gothic—The New Urban Gothic explores our anxieties and preoccupation with social inequalities, precarity and the peripheral that are found in so many new fictions across various media. Focusing on non-canonical Gothic global cities, this distinctive collection discusses urban centres in England’s Black Country, Moscow, Detroit, Seoul, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Dehli, Srinigar, Shanghai and Barcelona as well as cities of the imaginary, the digital and the animated. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the intersections of time, place, space and media in contemporary Gothic Studies. The New Urban Gothic casts reflections and shadows on the age of the Anthropocene.

Holly-Gale Millette is a senior teaching fellow at Southampton University, UK. A social and cultural historian publishing regularly in international journals and books, her recent work has focused on spatial, political and psychosocial representations of urban cultures and also the new urban Gothic in cultural theory and media texts.

Ruth Heholt is senior lecturer in English at Falmouth University, UK. She is co-editor of four collections including Gothic Britain: Dark Places in the Provinces and Margins of the British Isles, (2018) and Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). She is editor of Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural and assistant editor of Crime Fiction Studies.