New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft

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...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2013
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • "Cover"
  • "Half-Title"
  • "Title"
  • "Copyright"
  • "Dedication"
  • "Contents"
  • "List of Figures"
  • "Foreword by S. T. Joshi"
  • "Acknowledgments"
  • "Introduction H. P. Lovecraft: The Outsider No More?"
  • "Part I Lovecraft and His Fiction"
  • "One â€A Certain Resemblance”: Abject Hybridity in H. P. Lovecraft’s Short Fiction"
  • "Two â€Spawn of the Pit”: Lavinia, Marceline, Medusa, and All Things Foul: H. P. Lovecraft’s Liminal Women"
  • "Three â€The Infinitude of the Shrieking Abysses”: Rooms, Wombs, Tombs, and the Hysterical Female Gothic in â€The Dreams in the Witch-House”"
  • "Four Slime and Western Man: H. P. Lovecraft in the Time of Modernism"
  • "Five Looming at the Mountains of Madness: Lovecraft’s Mirages"
  • "Six On â€The Dunwich Horror”"
  • "Part II Lovecraft and His Inf luence"
  • "Seven The Shadow over Derleth: Disseminating the Mythos in The Trail of Cthulhu"
  • "Eight From the Library of America to the Mountains of Madness: Recent Discourse on H. P. Lovecraft"
  • "Nine Co(s)mic Horror"
  • "Ten â€Sounds Which Filled Me with an Indefinable Dread”: The Cthulhu Mythopoeia of H. P. Lovecraft in â€Extreme” Metal"
  • "Eleven â€Comrades in Tentacles”: H. P. Lovecraft and China Miéville"
  • "Twelve Tentacles and Teeth: The Lovecraftian Being in Popular Culture"
  • "Notes on Contributors"