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.