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The first comprehensive study of the works of William Hope Hodgson,
one of the true innovators of Weird fiction, this book examines the
Weird novels and stories upon which his posthumous reputation
rests, his non-fantastic writing, identifiable literary influences,
and the historical contexts in which he wrote. Focusing extensively
upon major works such as The House on the Borderland (1908) and The
Night Land (1912), Timothy S. Murphy surveys topics including
Hodgson’s experiments with code switching and linguistic
experimentation; his depictions of racial and ethnic differences
and gender and sexuality; the function of space and place in his
writing; the adaptation of his shipboard experiences; and his use
of abyssal time. With special attention paid to his paradoxical
nihilist humanism, this book explores what made Hodgson a respected
precursor to later innovators such as H. P. Lovecraft and C.L.
Moore, and what makes him an important ancestor to 21st-century
writers such as China Miéville, Greg Bear, and Charlie Jane
Anders. Demonstrating how his work is both of his time and
‘untimely’, Murphy recovers Hodgson as the most significant
figure to precede the fantastically popular but deeply
controversial Lovecraft, as well as a figure whose work challenges
what has thus far been accepted about the genre and the
interpretive perspectives from which we view it.
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