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Overview: Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the American author of weird tales who died in 1937 impoverished and relatively unknown, has become a twenty-first-century star, cropping up in places both anticipated and unexpected. Authors, filmmakers and shapers of popular culture like Stephen King, Neil Gaiman and Guillermo Del Toro acknowledge his influence, his fiction is key to the work of posthuman philosophers and cultural critics such as Graham Harman and Eugene Thackerband Lovecraft’s creations have achieved unprecedented cultural ubiquity, even showing up on the animated program South Park.
The Age of Lovecraft is the first sustained analysis of Lovecraft in relation to twenty-first-century critical theory and culture, delving into troubling aspects of his thought and writings. With contributions from scholars including Gothic expert David Punter, historian W. Scott Poole, musicologist Isabella van Elferen and philosopher of the post-human Patricia MacCormack, this wide-ranging volume brings together thinkers from an array of disciplines to consider Lovecraft’s contemporary cultural presence and its implications. Bookended by a preface from horror fiction luminary Ramsey Campbell and an extended interview with China Miéville, one of the central authors of the New Weird, this collection addresses Lovecraft’s influence through a variety of approaches and angles.
A must for scholars, students and theoretically inclined readers interested in Lovecraft, popular culture and intellectual trends, The Age of Lovecraft offers the most thorough examination of Lovecraft’s place in contemporary philosophy and critical theory to date as it seeks to shed light on the larger phenomenon of the dominance of weird fiction in the twenty-first century.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
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