New critical essays on H. P. Lovecraft / edited by David Simmons.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simmons, David, 1979- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937--Criticism and interpretation.

Lovecraft, H. P.

Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937.

Horror tales, American--History and criticism.

Horror tales, American.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xvi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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 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.

Contents:

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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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137332240

1137332247

OCLC:

829387006

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