Co-winner, Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in
Popular Culture and American Culture 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 Thacker; and 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 posthuman 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 the central author of the New Weird,
China Mieville, the collection addresses the question of "why
Lovecraft, why now?" 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.
Contributors: Jessica George; Brian Johnson, Carleton U; James
Kneale, U College London; Patricia MacCormack, Anglia Ruskin U,
Cambridge; Jed Mayer, SUNY New Paltz; China Mieville, Warwick U; W.
Scott Poole, College of Charleston; David Punter, U of Bristol;
David Simmons, Northampton U; Isabella van Elferen, Kingston U
London.
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