A dreamer and a visionary : H. P. Lovecraft in his time / S. T. Joshi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joshi, S. T., 1958-

Series:

Liverpool science fiction texts and studies.

Liverpool science fiction texts and studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Lovecraft, H. P.

Horror tales, American.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 422 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

H. P. Lovecraft has come to be recognised as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the twentieth century. But how did a man who died in poverty, with no book of his stories published in his lifetime, become such an icon in horror literature? S. T. Joshi, the leading authority on Lovecraft, traces in detail the course of Lovecraft's life and shows how Lovecraft was engaged in the political, economic, social and intellectual currents of his time.

Contents:

Preface; 1: Unmixed English Gentry; 2: A Genuine Pagan (1890-97); 3: Black Woods and Unfathomed Caves (1898-1902); 4: What of Unknown Africa? (1902-1908); 5: Barbarian and Alien (1908-14); 6: A Renewed Will to Live (1914-17); 7: Feverish and Incessant Scribbling (1917-19); 8: Cynical Materialist (1919-21); 9: The High Tide of My Life (1921-22); 10: For My Own Amusement (1923-24); 11: Ball and Chain (1924); 12: Moriturus Te Saluto (1925-26); 13: Paradise Regain'd (1926); 14: Cosmic Outsideness (1927-28); 15: Fanlights and Georgian Steeples (1928-30)

16: Non-supernatural Cosmic Art (1930-31)17: Mental Greed (1931-33); 18: In My Own Handwriting (1933-35); 19: Caring about the Civilization (1929-37); 20: The End of One's Life (1935-37); Epilogue: Thou Art Not Gone.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781781386446

1-78138-644-7

1-84631-299-X

OCLC:

476209653