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Cover: 9783030080365 | Weird Fiction in Britain 1880-1939 | James Machin | Taschenbuch | ix
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Weird Fiction in Britain 1880-1939
Taschenbuch von James Machin
Sprache: Englisch

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This book is the first study of how 'weird fiction' emerged from Victorian supernatural literature, abandoning the more conventional Gothic horrors of the past for the contemporary weird tale. It investigates the careers and fiction of a range of the British writers who inspired H. P. Lovecraft, such as Arthur Machen, M. P. Shiel, and John Buchan, to shed light on the tensions between 'literary' and 'genre' fiction that continue to this day. Weird Fiction in Britain 1880-1939 focuses on the key literary and cultural contexts of weird fiction of the period, including Decadence, paganism, and the occult, and discusses how these later impacted on the seminal American pulp magazine Weird Tales. This ground-breaking book will appeal to scholars of weird, horror and Gothic fiction, genre studies, Decadence, popular fiction, the occult, and Fin-de-Siècle cultural history.
This book is the first study of how 'weird fiction' emerged from Victorian supernatural literature, abandoning the more conventional Gothic horrors of the past for the contemporary weird tale. It investigates the careers and fiction of a range of the British writers who inspired H. P. Lovecraft, such as Arthur Machen, M. P. Shiel, and John Buchan, to shed light on the tensions between 'literary' and 'genre' fiction that continue to this day. Weird Fiction in Britain 1880-1939 focuses on the key literary and cultural contexts of weird fiction of the period, including Decadence, paganism, and the occult, and discusses how these later impacted on the seminal American pulp magazine Weird Tales. This ground-breaking book will appeal to scholars of weird, horror and Gothic fiction, genre studies, Decadence, popular fiction, the occult, and Fin-de-Siècle cultural history.
Über den Autor
James Machin is a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, UK.
Zusammenfassung

Constitutes the first cultural history of weird fiction from a British perspective

Demonstrates how weird fiction didn't start in America with H. P. Lovecraft; it has a far longer and 'weirder' history

Uses a combination of cultural history, archival research, and literary criticism to excavate weird fiction's complex historical lineage, re-examining its relationship with Modernism

Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction.- 2. The Weird Fin-De-Siècle and After.- 3. Shiel, Stenbock, Gilchrist, and Machen.- 4. Buchan.- 5.
Weird Tales
and Pulp Decadence.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Recht, Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Palgrave Gothic
Inhalt: ix
259 S.
5 s/w Illustr.
259 p. 5 illus.
ISBN-13: 9783030080365
ISBN-10: 3030080366
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Machin, James
Hersteller: Springer
Springer International Publishing AG
Palgrave Gothic
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 210 x 148 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: James Machin
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.01.2019
Gewicht: 0,356 kg
Artikel-ID: 116954048
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