Name: William Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird: Possibilities of the Dark
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Author: Murphy, Timothy S. ; Sangster, Matthew ; Fimi, Dimitra
ISBN: 9781350365735

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William Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird: Possibilities of the Dark

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English

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224

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Paperback

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23.4 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm

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0.45 kg.

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9781350365735

Synopsis "William Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird: Possibilities of the Dark"

The first comprehensive study of the works of William Hope Hodgson, one of the true innovators of Weird fiction, this book examines the Weird novels and stories upon which his posthumous reputation rests, his non-fantastic writing, identifiable literary influences, and the historical contexts in which he wrote. Focusing extensively upon major works such as The House on the Borderland (1908) and The Night Land (1912), Timothy S. Murphy surveys topics including Hodgson's experiments with code switching and linguistic experimentation; his depictions of racial and ethnic differences and gender and sexuality; the function of space and place in his writing; the adaptation of his shipboard experiences; and his use of abyssal time. With special attention paid to his paradoxical nihilist humanism, this book explores what made Hodgson a respected precursor to later innovators such as H. P. Lovecraft and C.L. Moore, and what makes him an important ancestor to 21st-century writers such as China Miéville, Greg Bear, and Charlie Jane Anders. Demonstrating how his work is both of his time and 'untimely', Murphy recovers Hodgson as the most significant figure to precede the fantastically popular but deeply controversial Lovecraft, as well as a figure whose work challenges what has thus far been accepted about the genre and the interpretive perspectives from which we view it.

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