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Weird Fiction in Britain 1880-1939 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Weird Fiction in Britain 1880-1939 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Palgrave Gothic
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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-Siecle cultural history.
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