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Journeys into Darkness - Critical Essays on Gothic Horror (Hardcover)
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Journeys into Darkness - Critical Essays on Gothic Horror (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Supernatural Literature
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The tradition of supernatural horror fiction runs deep in
Anglo-American literature. From the Gothic novels of the eighteenth
century to such contemporary authors as Stephen King and Anne Rice,
writers have employed horror fiction to unearth many disquieting
truths about the human condition, ranging from mistreatment of
women and minorities to the ever-present dangers of modern city
life. In Journeys into Darkness: Critical Essays on Gothic Horror,
James Goho analyzes many significant writers and trends in American
and British horror fiction. Beginning with Charles Brockden Brown's
disturbing novels of terror and madness, Goho proceeds to discuss
the influence of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"
on H. P. Lovecraft, who is treated in several penetrating essays.
Lovecraft was a uniquely philosophical writer, and Goho approaches
his work through the lens of existentialist philosopher Soren
Kierkegaard, while also probing Lovecraft's racism as exhibited in
several tales about Native Americans. Goho also discusses the Welsh
writer Arthur Machen's tortured tales of suffering and evil and
Algernon Blackwood's numerous stories set in the wilds of the
Canadian backwoods. The book concludes with a centuries-spanning
essay on the witchcraft theme in the American Gothic tradition and
a comprehensive essay on Fritz Leiber's invention of the urban
Gothic. In this wide-ranging study, James Goho examines the varied
ways in which supernatural fiction can address the deepest moral,
social, and political concerns of the human experience. Journeys
into Darkness will be of interest to readers and scholars of horror
fiction and to students of literary history and culture in general.
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