12 Thursday Jul 2012
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
A forthcoming academic book has a chapter on Lovecraft. Chapter 5 of Reverberations : the philosophy, aesthetics and politics of noise (Aug 2012) is:
Dean Lockwood (Lincoln, UK), “Mongrel Vibrations: H.P. Lovecraft’s Weird Ecology of Noise”
08 Sunday Jul 2012
Posted in Maps, Scholarly works
“I am it, and It is I”: Lovecraft in Providence is an interactive mapping website created by University of Virginia undergraduate Paul Mawye. The site…
“connects short passages from the letters of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft with the geography of […] Rhode Island.”
Thankfully, no Flash is involved. The website instead runs on Neatline, which is a system used to make online projects that display combinations of…
“history, literature, and contemporary space and place”
02 Monday Jul 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
A scholarly paper that appears to be new online: Gilbert Lascault, “Lovecraft et ses mythes intimes” (“Lovecraft and his intimate myths”). It appears to be pages 175-190 from Territoires des Fantastiques (1998), published by the Presses de l’Universite de Provence. As best I can judge it’s a survey of the rhetoric of “the monstrous” in Lovecraft’s fiction.
01 Sunday Jul 2012
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
An interesting short survey article on the transforming 18th century understanding of caves, “The Mighty Cavern of the Past“, which may shed some light on the ways in which the young Lovecraft’s mind approached the idea of ‘the cave’.
Above: “The Dead Sea”, engraving of Mammoth Cave by Alfred R. Waud, printed in Every Saturday, 1871.
30 Saturday Jun 2012
Posted in Historical context, Scholarly works
Two books found on the Internet Archive…
Old paths and legends of New England (1908 edition)
Old paths and legends of the New England border (1907 edition)
27 Wednesday Jun 2012
Posted in New books, Scholarly works
Out now, a new issue of Dead Reckonings: a review of horror literature. Including a review of Massimo Berruti’s Dim-Remembered Stories: a critical study of R.H. Barlow (2011).
26 Tuesday Jun 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
The call is out for the 2012 Jamie Bishop Memorial Award, for a critical essay on the fantastic. 3,000-10,000 words, deadline 1st September 2012.
26 Tuesday Jun 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Mention of an interesting-sounding academic paper, presented last month at the Queertopia! queer studies conference in northwest Australia…
Alexandra Edwards, “Like some monstrous stealthy cat”: queerness and felinomorphism in Charles Brockden Brown, Henry James, and H.P. Lovecraft.
Edwards won the English Department’s Best Graduate Essay prize with the paper, but sadly it’s not online. The term “felinomorphism” appears to come via the parody Ground Zero by Paul Lysymy, which makes me think the paper might be also in that line(?).
02 Saturday Jun 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Conference: Monsters and the Monstrous: future anxieties. 10th-12th September 2012 at Mansfield College, Oxford, in the UK.
Themes:
* Monstrous Places/Spaces of the Future
* Human Monsters
* Monstrous Aliens & Alien Invaders
* Monstrous Generations (youth, old folks etc)
* Monstrous Politics (which predictably avoids suggesting the horrors of socialism)
22 Tuesday May 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
News of an upcoming academic conference (or perhaps a conference strand?) on Lovecraft, to be held in Vermont — Weird Lovecraft: H.P. Lovecraft, Weird Tales, and the American Horror Canon…
“The College of St. Joseph is actively looking for paper proposals that explore the way that Lovecraft and/or Weird Tales helped construct the American horror canon or the American horrific aesthetic.”
“Papers will be presented at the College of St. Joseph’s popular culture conference, held 26-27th October 2012.”
See the PDF for details. Sadly, I see that the deadline for abstacts has passed — it was 15th May. Better initial publicity needed, next time, methinks.
19 Saturday May 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
Open access to The Bookman USA (1895-1933) and The Bookman UK (1891-1934).
Search via Google:
site:http://www.unz.org/Pub/Bookman keyword
Also quite a few pulps from the 1940s and 1950s, including Fantastic Novels and Fantastic Adventures and some later Weird Tales, which have Lovecraft reprints.
You can also search the entire archive via:
site:http://www.unz.org/Pub/ Lovecraft
16 Wednesday May 2012
Posted in Scholarly works
A new conference on the monstrous. 1st Global Conference on Monstrous Geographies: places and spaces of monstrosity. 18th – 20th July 2012, University of Oxford, UK…
“What is the relationship between the monstrous and the geographic – those places monsters inhabit, but also places that are configured as being monstrous in and of themselves?”
Interesting. Sadly the deadline for papers has long passed, or I might have submitted something cut from my most recent book on Lovecraft and New York City. It looks like it would cost me about £500 to attend. If a kind benefactor would care to donate that amount, I can guarantee a substantial plain English 6,000+ word report soon after the event.