Reading Lovecraft in the Anthropocene - A New Dark Age

In Reading Lovecraft in the Anthropocene: A New Dark Age, the intersection of environmental, philosophical, and literary discourses is explored through the lens of H.P. Lovecraft's weird fiction.

List of contents

Introduction
Part One: The Bad Seed
1. Weird Antecedents
2. Weird Decadence
3. Weird Ontology
Part Two: Weird Crops
4. Weird Dwellings
5. Weird Ecology
6. Weird Sensations
Part Three: Excrescence
7. Weird Posthuman/Prehuman
8. The Weird Postsecular
9. Weird Dreamscape
Closure: Minding the Gap

About the author

Christian Wilken is a research associate at the University of Koblenz and a lecturer at the University of Düsseldorf.

Summary

In Reading Lovecraft in the Anthropocene: A New Dark Age, the intersection of environmental, philosophical, and literary discourses is explored through the lens of H.P. Lovecraft’s weird fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Christian Wilken
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032899459
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3289945-9
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000