Shadows of the Industrial Soul: The Transition from Rural to Urban Gothic in Late Victorian Fiction

Author(s)	Dr. Parul Rastogi
Country	India
Abstract	The paper covers the growth of Gothic literature from the isolated castles and rural settings to the bustling streets of late nineteenth-century London. The Victorian fear of overpopulation, industrial pollution, social fragmentation, and moral decay was the subject of this ‘Urban Gothic’, the paper concludes. Based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, London is not only the subject of horror; the city is also a kind of siege and a symbol of the fear, the conflict, the ethical dilemma, and the moral problems of people who live in it.
Published In	Volume 9, Issue 2, July-December 2018
Published On	2018-11-09
DOI	https://doi.org/10.71097/IJAIDR.v9.i2.1807

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