5/29/2023 0 Comments Neil gaiman neverwhere epub![]() ![]() Drawing upon known Victorian symbols, such as the London Underground or the London fog, Gaiman renders them into having double meanings and thus, deepens our understanding of the city’s historical and social memory. Therefore, associating it with neo-Victorian fantastical genres steampunk and gaslamp fantasy. This paper, focuses on Gaiman’s emphasized allusions to the 19th century as the main influential era on the city’s development as both asocially oppressive space but also a fantastical one. Lower London contains all that is suppressed by London Above and inhabits all that is lost and forgotten (certain moments in history, those in need, broken objects, etc.) The repressed ‘things’ eventually haunt the city of London Above and exist within their own terms of fantastical reality in London Below. The city is divided into two separate spaces, London Above and London Below, that are parallel to one another and mirror each other. ![]() Set in 20th century London, the novel evokes fantastical and supernatural elements to paint the history of the city and encompasses its historic memory. The City of the Past in Gaiman’s NeverwhereĪbstract: Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed novel Neverwhere belongs to the rapidly growing sub-genre of urban fantasy. ![]() Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research, Volume 4, Issue 1, pages 20–30.
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