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New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft

Editat de D. Simmons
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 iul 2013
The last ten years have witnessed a renewed interest in H.P. Lovecraft in academic and scholarly circles. New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft seeks to offer an expansive and considered account of a fascinating yet challenging writer; both popular and critically valid but also problematic in terms of his depictions of race, gender and class.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137332240
ISBN-10: 1137332247
Pagini: 259
Ilustrații: XVII, 259 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 4.53 kg
Ediția:2013
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Acknowledgments Foreword by S.T. Joshi Introduction PART I: LOVECRAFT AND HIS FICTION 1 'A Certain Resemblance': Africa as Abjection Within and Without in H.P. Lovecraft's Short Fiction; David Simmons 2. 'Spawn of the pit': Lavinia, Marceline, Medusa and all Things Foul: HP Lovecraft's Liminal Women; Gina Wisker 3. 'The infinitude of the shrieking abysses': Rooms, Wombs, Tombs and the Hysterical Female Gothic in "The Dreams in the Witch-House"; Sara Williams 4. Slime and Western Man: H. P. Lovecraft in the Time of Modernism; Gerry Carlin and Nicola Allen 5. Looming at the Mountains of Madness: Lovecraft's Mirages; Robert Waugh 6. On 'The Dunwich Horror'; Donald Burleson PART II: LOVECRAFT AND HIS INFLUENCE 7. The Shadow Over Derleth: Disseminating the Mythos in The Trail of Cthulhu; J. S. Mackley 8. From the Library of America to the Mountains of Madness: Recent Discourse on H.P. Lovecraft; Steffen Hantke 9. Co(s)mic Horror; Chris Murray and Kevin Corstorphine 10. 'Sounds which filledme with an indefinable dread': The Cthulhu Mythopoeia of H.P. Lovecraft in 'Extreme' Metal'; Joseph Norman 11. 'Comrades in Tentacles': H.P. Lovecraft and China Mieville; Martyn Colebrook 12. Tentacles and Teeth: The Lovecraftian Being in Popular Culture; Mark Jones

Recenzii

"Informative and thoughtful . . . showcase[s] a wide range of approaches that testify to the richness of themes and concerns raised by Lovecraft's still highly inspiring oeuvre." - Rue Morgue
"Simmons has done valuable work in assembling and editing this timely collection." -The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies

Notă biografică

Nicola Allen, Northampton University and University of Wolverhampton, UK Donald R. Burleson, author of H. P. Lovecraft: A Critical Study and Lovecraft: Disturbing the Universe Gerry Carlin, University of Wolverhampton, UK Martyn Colebrook, The University of Hull, UK Kevin Corstorphine, University of Hull; UK Steffan Hantke, Sogang University, South Korea Mark Jones, University of Wolverhampton, UK S. T. Joshi, author Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction and H. P. Lovecraft: A Life J. S. Mackley, University of Northampton, UK Chris Murray, University of Dundee, UK Joseph Norman, Brunel University, UK Robert Waugh, SUNY New Paltz, USA Sara Williams, University of Hull, UK Gina Wisker, University of Brighton, UK.