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New critical essays on H.P. Lovecraft

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	New critical essays on H.P. Lovecraft/ [edited] by David Simmons.
other author:	Simmons, David,
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2013.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Horror tales, American - History and criticism. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137320964
ISBN:	9781137320964 (electronic bk.)

New critical essays on H.P. Lovecraft
New critical essays on H.P. Lovecraft[electronic resource] /[edited] by David Simmons. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2013. - 1 online resource.

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.

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.".

ISBN: 9781137320964 (electronic bk.)

Source: 661920Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Personal Names:

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Lovecraft, H. P.
1890-1937--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Horror tales, American
--History and criticism.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PS3523.O833 / Z79 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.52

New critical essays on H.P. Lovecraft
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