New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft [electronic resource] /
Simmons, David.editor.
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.
Includes index.
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.
Machine generated contents note: -- 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; 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.
Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937
Fiction.
America-Literatures.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Fiction.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.