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Lovecraft in the 21st Century Dead, But Still Dreaming

Edited By Antonio Alcala Gonzalez, Carl H. Sederholm Copyright 2022
    330 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    330 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    330 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge
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    Lovecraft in the 21st Century assembles reflections from a wide range of perspectives on the significance of Lovecraft’s influence in contemporary times. Building on a focus centered on the Anthropocene, adaptation, and visual media, the chapters in this collection focus on the following topics:

    • Adaptation of Lovecraft’s legacy in theater, television, film, graphic narratives, video games and game artwork

    • The connection between the writer’s legacy and his life

    • Reading Lovecraft in light of contemporary criticism about capitalism, the posthuman, and the Anthropocene

    • How contemporary authors have worked through the implicit racial and sexual politics in Lovecraft’s fiction

    • Reading Lovecraft’s fiction in light of contemporary approaches to gender and sexuality

    Introduction

      Antonio Alcala Gonzalez and Carl H. Sederholm

    1. Lovecraft and the Stage: A Recent (Re)Discovery

      2.

      Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

    2. Lovecraftian Landscapes and Cosmic Horror in HBO’s True Detective (2014)

      3.

      Elisabete Lopes

    3. An Uncanny Absence: Lovecraft in Brazilian cinema, 1975-2016

      4.

      Lúcio Reis Filho and Sheila Schvarzman

    4. The Masks of E’ch-Pi-El: Interpreting the Life and Work of H. P. Lovecraft

      5.

      John Glover

    5. "It’s like a maze you can’t see": Comics Cryptomimesis of Lovecraft and the Lovecraftian in Alan Moore’s Neonomicon (2004-2005) and Providence (2015-2017)

      6.

      Stuart L. Lindsay

    6. Man or Cartoon: H.P. Lovecraft as a Comics Character

      7.

      Tom Shapira

    7. Drawing the Unknowable - Lovecraft’s Cosmic Horror in Magic: The Gathering and Hearthstone

      8.

      Suzanne Albary and Richard Albary

    8. Nuclear Inhumanities: H. P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space" and the Dread of Contamination

      9.

      Ian Fetters

    9. An Eldritch Crisis: Capitalist Paradigms in the Cthulhu Mythos

      10.

      Daniel Doncel

    10. Lovecraft’s Viral Networks: A Contaminated Ethics for the Chthulucene

      11.

      Natasha Rebry Coulthard

    11. "It Was the Vegetation": Ecophobia and Monstrous Wilderness in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft

      12.

      Fredrik Blanc

    12. Nautical Horror and the Anthropocene: Lovecraftian Monsters in William Eubank’s　Underwater

      13.

      Antonio Alcala Gonzalez

    13. Racial (in)visibility, cosmic indifference: Reimagining H. P. Lovecraft’s legacy in Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom (2016)

      14.

      Kathleen Hudson

    14. Finding "Something and Not Nothing:" Women of Color Repurposing Lovecraft in the Posthuman 21st Century

      15.

      Loren Barbour

    15. The Crawling Chaos: H. P. Lovecraft, Closed Gothic Spaces and "Dungeon Crawler" Videogames

      16.

      Kevin Corstorphine and Matt Crofts

    16. Dreaming in Layers: Lovecraftian Storyworlds in Interactive Media

      17.

      Eoin Murray

    17. "Bringing … Uncertain Geographies Under … Control"? Exploring the Lovecraftian ‘Walking Simulator’

      18.

      David Simmons

    18. Queering Cthulhu: Reclaiming Lovecraft’s Monstrous Others

      19.

      Nowell Marshall

    19. Weird Bedfellows: H. P. Lovecraft, M/M Romance, and the New Queer Families of Jordan L. Hawk’s Whyborne & Griffin Series

      20.

      Brian Johnson

    20. Lovecraft, Hauntology, and the Rhetoric of Unthinkability

      21.

      Michael Cerliano

    21. Falling into the Void: "Nyarlathotep"

    Carl H. Sederholm

    Biography

    Antonio Alcala Gonzalez　is founder of the　International Gothic Literature Congress　and　chair of the Humanities Department at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City.　

    Carl H. Sederholm is professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brigham Young University and chair of the Department of Comparative Arts and Letters.

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