Gothic London: On the Capital of Urban Fantasy in Neil Gaiman, China Miéville and Peter Ackroyd
<p>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 centr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2017-11-01
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| Series: | Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico |
| Online Access: | https://revistes.uab.cat/brumal/article/view/416 |
| Summary: | <p>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 <em>Neverwhere</em> (1996), China Miéville’s story <em>Reports of Certain Events in London</em> (2004), and Peter Ackroyd’s novel <em>Hawksmoor</em> (1985) that portray London as a liminal space and a gothic heterotopia.</p> |
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| ISSN: | 2014-7910 |