{"id":59965,"date":"2023-06-01T00:37:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T00:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=59965"},"modified":"2023-06-01T12:21:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T12:21:58","slug":"understanding-h-p-lovecrafts-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/06\/01\/understanding-h-p-lovecrafts-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding H.P. Lovecraft’s Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s now another recent attempt to fathom Lovecraft’s possible and actual medical conditions, in the new dissertation “Understanding H.P. Lovecraft’s Anxiety Narratives through the Medical Humanities”<\/a> (2023)…<\/p>\n

“I argue that deciphering these writings as anxiety narratives will be giving a new insight about the author, as well as mental illness in general.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For a Spanish university, in English. Free online, and under Creative Commons.<\/p>\n

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Interestingly, and somewhat in relation to this, I recently heard that the years 1908-11 are now deemed to have been the coldest years on record in the USA, a run which broke in the “notably fine summer of 1911” before the nation was plunged into the well-documented and bitter winter of the ‘1911\u201312 United States cold wave’. 1908 coincides quite well with the start of Lovecraft’s hermitage \/ mystery years of 1908-1916, and this makes me think that new attempts at diagnosis would necessarily have to closely consider the weather and temperatures of New England and also New York City. <\/p>\n

The essay on the influence of the fluctuating seasonal temperatures on Lovecraft has yet to be written, I think. Or perhaps a timeline + graph might be a better format. Whatever the format, first one would have to track down the reliable non-‘adjusted’ data, ideally drawn from and referenced to primary data such as local newspapers of the period. I see there are now books on the history of New England weather, but they focus on the front-page headline events and have titles such as Mighty Storms of New England<\/em>. I find that Lovecraft’s own favoured source, The Old Farmer’s Almanac<\/em>, can only provide North Providence data back to 1945<\/a>. Perhaps a Tentaclii<\/em> reader knows where a good reliable and succinct week-by-week graph for pre-1938 North Providence might be had?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s now another recent attempt to fathom Lovecraft’s possible and actual medical conditions, in the new dissertation “Understanding H.P. Lovecraft’s …<\/p>\n

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