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Neo-Victorian Slumming in London's Gothicity: The Victorian Metropolis' Televisual Transformation into "The City of Dreadful Night"
Marie-luise Kohlke 
Transforming Cities, Volume: 85, Pages: 181 - 209
Swansea University Author:
Marie-luise Kohlke
Abstract
Through the prevalent neo-Victorian slumming trope, this chapter explores Victorian London's progressive Gothic transformation into a veritable "City of Dreadful Night", with special focus on the popular television series *Ripper Street* (2012-2016) and *Penny Dreadful* (2014-2016). T...
| Published in: | Transforming Cities |
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| ISBN: | 9783825367497 9783825377557 |
| Published: |
Heidelberg, Germany
Universitaetsverlag WINTER
2018
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| Online Access: |
https://www.winter-verlag.de/en/detail/978-3-8253-6749-7/Pietrzak_Pranger_ea_Eds_Transforming_Cities/ |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa36100 |
| Abstract: |
Through the prevalent neo-Victorian slumming trope, this chapter explores Victorian London's progressive Gothic transformation into a veritable "City of Dreadful Night", with special focus on the popular television series *Ripper Street* (2012-2016) and *Penny Dreadful* (2014-2016). This cultural re-imagining of the historical metropolis is linked to both the legacies of nineteenth-century Urban Gothic and philanthropic discourse, as well as audience predilections (then and now) for 'vicarious slumming' and literal slumming tourism. |
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| Keywords: |
the abject, degradation, neo-Victorian, Penny Dreadful, philanthropy, Ripper Street, slums, slumming, Urban Gothic, 'vicarious slumming', Victorian London |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Start Page: |
181 |
| End Page: |
209 |