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Informationen zum Autor Antonio Sanna is teaching assistant at the University of Sassari. Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he teaches courses on international horror film. He also serves on the editorial board of New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film (Intellect), Director of the horror cinema research group "Grite," and Director of the Spanish horror studies series "Terror: Estudios Críticos" (Universidad de Cádiz). Adrian Tait is an ecocritic with a particular interest in Victorian and modernist literary responses to environmental crisis. Klappentext Arthur Machen: Critical Essays studies the works of Arthur Machen in twelve essays, exploring different aspects of the literary production of the Welsh writer who has won the readers and the critics' attention with works such as "The Great God Pan," "The Terror," and "The Angels of Mons." Zusammenfassung Arthur Machen: Critical Essays studies the works of Arthur Machen in twelve essays, exploring different aspects of the literary production of the Welsh writer who has won the readers and the critics' attention with works such as "The Great God Pan," "The Terror," and "The Angels of Mons." Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Arthur Machen: His Life, His Works, and His Critics Antonio Sanna Part I: Human Beings and Their Environments Chapter 1: 'A London cognita and a London incognita': Contesting London in Arthur Machen's The London Adventure, or the Art of Wandering Amanda M. Caleb Chapter 2: The Problem of Agency in Arthur Machen's The Terror Francesco Corigliano Chapter 3: Heterotopic Spaces in Machen's Fiction Antonio Sanna Chapter 4: Dead Matter: Posthumanism and Stones Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Emiliano Aguilar Part II: Darwinism and Degeneration Chapter 5: Fear and Fossils: The Legacy of Arthur Machen's 'Little People' Stories Justin Phillip Mullis Chapter 6: 'Dissolution and Change': Reading The Great God Pan as Monstrous Adaptation Jessica George Chapter 7: Lucian's Ornaments in Jade: Symbolist Decadence in Arthur Machen's Prose Poetry Kostas Boyiopoulos Chapter 8: 'A Substance as Jelly': Helen Vaughan as Infectious Pathogen in The Great God Pan Loredana Salis and Laura Mauro ...