[ecrea] 'The New Urban Gothic' - Call for Abstracts

*/The New Urban Gothic/**, Call for Abstracts*

We are soliciting abstracts/essays for a new collection entitled /The 
New Urban Gothic. /Urban Gothic is a subgenre of Gothic fiction, Gothic 
crime fiction, and television whose narratives spring from discourse on 
industrial and post-industrial urban society. Often dystopic, it was 
pioneered in the mid-19th century in Britain and the United States and 
developed in serialisations such as R. L. Stevenson’s /The Strange Case 
of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde /(1886); into novels such as Oscar Wilde’s 
/The Picture of Dorian Gray/(1890). Much has been written on 19^th 
century Anglo-centred Urban Gothic fiction and vampiristic, monstrous 
Urban Gothic, but less has been written on the 21^st century reimagining 
and re-serialisation of the Urban Gothic in mechanised, altered, 
disabled, and dystopic states of being. Nor has writing on the Urban 
Gothic departed from the canonical London location or considered the 
Urban Gothic as the prime progenitor of the genre of Crime Fiction. The 
intention, therefore, is for /The New Urban Gothic to /explore the 
resurgence in serialised and grotesque narratives of degeneration, 
ecological and economic ruin, dystopia, mechanised future inequality, 
and crime narrative as evidenced in literature and new forms of media in 
an international context. Submissions are welcomed that address the 
historic specificities of urban difference and Gothic traditions, as 
well as inter-disciplinary studies and contemporary texts that link 
urban crime fiction and the Gothic.

Topics may include (but are not bound by):

·Industrialization, Mechanisation and future dystopia in the Urban Gothic

·New serializations of the Urban Gothic (Dickens – Netflix, etc.)

·Outsiders (Gender, Race, or the Orient) in the New Urban Gothic

·Identity and Belonging in the New Urban Gothic

·Dark Tourism and the New Urban Gothic

·Political Aesthetics (Grotesque) of the New Urban Gothic

·LGBTQi and the New Urban Gothic

·Disability and Mental Health in the New Urban Gothic

·Sci-Fi and the New Urban Gothic in Space.

·Gaming and the New Urban Gothic (X-Box, PS 3, Wii, PC, etc.)

·Graphic Novels and the New Urban Gothic (Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Frank 
Miller, etc.)

·Regional New Urban Gothic (Sheffield, New Orleans, Ontario, etc.)

·Dockside New Urban Gothic (Limehouse, Hong Kong, Gdansk, Liverpool, 
Vancouver, etc.)

·Japanese New Urban Gothic (or Korean, Chinese, Indian, Canadian etc)

Please send a 300-500 word abstract including keywords, along with 
50-100 words of biodata to the editors (h.millette /at/ soton.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(h.millette /at/ soton.ac.uk)>and (ruth.heholt /at/ falmouth.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(ruth.heholt /at/ falmouth.ac.uk)>by *30 August, 2017.*

**

Deadline for final chapters of no more than 7,500 words (including notes 
and references):

1 May 2018.


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