| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
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; Jon 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 filled me 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 |
| Summary |
New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft offers an exciting investigation of this significant writer's works and influence. In the collection a range of noted scholars, novelists, and writers take a multidisciplinary approach, exploring Lovecraft's life, his most beloved stories and his continuing presence in popular culture. Their work creates a book that is enlightening for both academics and fans of a figure that Stephen King called "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." |
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"New critical essays on H.P. Lovecraft offers an exciting investigation of this significant writer's works and influence. In the collection a range of noted scholars, novelists and writers, take a multidisciplinary approach, exploring Lovecraft's life, his most beloved stories and his continuing presence in popular culture. Their work provides the first scholarly study of its kind, creating a book that is enlightening for both academics and fans of a figure that Stephen King called "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.""-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 fast |
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Horror tales, American -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Horror tales, American
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Simmons, David, 1979- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781137320964 |
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1137320966 |
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9781137332240 |
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1137332247 |
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