书目名称 | Weird Fiction in Britain 1880–1939 | 编辑 | James Machin | 视频video | | 概述 | 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’ histor | 丛书名称 | Palgrave Gothic | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .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. . | 出版日期 | Book 2018 | 关键词 | gothic; horror; Decadence; supernatural; weird; H; P; Lovecraft; paganism; occult; fiction; Gothic fiction | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90527-3 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-08036-5 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-90527-3Series ISSN 2634-6214 Series E-ISSN 2634-6222 | issn_series | 2634-6214 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 |
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