{"id":6394,"date":"2013-03-22T10:23:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T07:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=6394"},"modified":"2013-03-22T10:23:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T07:23:03","slug":"new-scholarly-books-on-lovecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/03\/22\/new-scholarly-books-on-lovecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"New scholarly books on Lovecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of forthcoming books of essays on Lovecraft, dated and with covers.<\/p>\n

Dated May 2013, Lovecraft and Influence: his predecessors and successors<\/a><\/em>. This is a 200 page hardback in the Studies in Supernatural Literature series, from Scarecrow Press…<\/p>\n

“Chapters in this collection are devoted to authors whose work had an impact on Lovecraft — Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lord Dunsany — and those who drew inspiration from him, including William S. Burroughs, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti” and others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The first half of this sounds interesting, especially as it’s edited by Robert H. Waugh. I don’t think I’ve seen a really good analysis of the influence of the 18th century writers whom Lovecraft imbibed so heavily (although possibly Joshi has one somewhere, on at least the philosophical influences). I’d welcome a print or Kindle review-copy of this one.<\/p>\n

The second is due June 2013, Gavin Callaghan’s H.P. Lovecraft’s Dark Arcadia: the satire, symbology and contradiction<\/a><\/em> is from the mainstream publisher McFarland…<\/p>\n

“Gavin Callaghan goes back to the weird texts themselves, and follows where Lovecraft leads him: into an arcane world of parental giganticism and inverted classicism, in which Lovecraft’s parental obsessions were twisted into the all-powerful cosmic monsters of his imaginary cosmology.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This sounds horribly as though it may be Freudian in some form in its approach: “parental giganticism”? Let’s hope it doesn’t also fashionably suggest little Lovecraft as the subject of unwonted attentions behind the woodshed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of forthcoming books of essays on Lovecraft, dated and with covers. Dated May 2013, Lovecraft and Influence: his …<\/p>\n

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