{"id":6936,"date":"2013-05-09T23:34:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T20:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=6936"},"modified":"2013-05-09T23:34:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T20:34:08","slug":"lovecraft-and-the-northern-gothic-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/05\/09\/lovecraft-and-the-northern-gothic-tongue\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft and the Northern Gothic Tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new article from Roger Lockhurst at the Oxford Dictionaries, ahead of the Oxford University Press edition of Lovecraft, on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oxforddictionaries.com\/2013\/05\/h-p-lovecraft\/\">&#8220;H.P. Lovecraft and the Northern Gothic Tongue&#8221;<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There is a very specific language of Gothic and horror literature that has its roots buried deep in the history of English: <em>doom<\/em> has been around since Old English; <em>dread<\/em> carries over from Middle English; <em>eerie<\/em>, that sense of vague superstitious uneasiness, enters Middle English through Scottish. The adjectives are harsh and guttural: moons are always <em>gibbous<\/em>, the trees <em>eldritch<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new article from Roger Lockhurst at the Oxford Dictionaries, ahead of the Oxford University Press edition of Lovecraft, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/05\/09\/lovecraft-and-the-northern-gothic-tongue\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}