Interesting new book on Lovecraft’s treatment of the feminine, in Italian by Renzo Giorgetti, Lovecraftian Archetypes: the eternal feminine. The English summary…
“In the study of the work of H.P. Lovecraft one theme seems always to be neglected: that of women. In Lovecraft’s intellectual odyssey and his dreaming, always lost in seas of fantastic creation, this theme seems almost deliberately forgotten or relegated to a corner of his conceptions. But on closer examination the female appears numerous times: transformed, concealed, disguised, but ever-present and ready to play a key role. Whether it be ordinary women, or goddesses, monsters and entire civilisations, the female has her place in the Lovecraftian universe, exercising with a magical influence a magnetism towards the unknown and the unfathomable, and always ready to unleash surprising and unexpected potentialities.”
It is a study that analyses the symbolical content in Lovecraft’s works. 52,000 words, 153 pages, and unfortunately available only in Italian.
Table of contents:
Preface
I – Sex, Sexuality and Gender
II – The Women in the Tales
III – The Great Mother
III – Appendix – The Silver Key
IV – Shub-Niggurath
V – Witches
VI – Fairies
VII – The Wife “from beyond”
VIII – In the Sublunary Sphere
IX – Submersion
X – The Strange High House in the Mist
Appendix: The Cat
Thanks Renzo, the TOC is much appreciated!
Here’s Chapter VII, about the “supernatural bride”:
http://www.centrostudilaruna.it/lovecraft-e-la-moglie-dellaltro-mondo.html