FREE Shipping on orders over $35.

This title has not yet been released.

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.

Turn on 1-Click ordering for this browser

Ship to:

Select a shipping address:

Flip to back Flip to front

Listen Playing... Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more

See this image

The Age of Lovecraft Paperback – April 1, 2016

by Carl H. Sederholm (Editor), Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (Editor)

See all 2 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Hardcover

"Please retry"

$87.50

—

Paperback

"Please retry"

$20.34

—

Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the American author of “weird tales” who died in 1937 impoverished and relatively unknown, has become a twenty-first-century star, cropping up in places both anticipated and unexpected. Authors, filmmakers, and shapers of popular culture like Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and Guillermo del Toro acknowledge his influence; his fiction is key to the work of posthuman philosophers and cultural critics such as Graham Harman and Eugene Thacker; and Lovecraft’s creations have achieved unprecedented cultural ubiquity, even showing up on the animated program South Park.

The Age of Lovecraft is the first sustained analysis of Lovecraft in relation to twenty-first-century critical theory and culture, delving into troubling aspects of his thought and writings. With contributions from scholars including Gothic expert David Punter, historian W. Scott Poole, musicologist Isabella van Elferen, and philosopher of the posthuman Patricia MacCormack, this wide-ranging volume brings together thinkers from an array of disciplines to consider Lovecraft’s contemporary cultural presence and its implications. Bookended by a preface from horror fiction luminary Ramsey Campbell and an extended interview with the central author of the New Weird, China Miéville, the collection addresses the question of “why Lovecraft, why now?” through a variety of approaches and angles.

A must for scholars, students, and theoretically inclined readers interested in Lovecraft, popular culture, and intellectual trends, The Age of Lovecraft offers the most thorough examination of Lovecraft’s place in contemporary philosophy and critical theory to date as it seeks to shed light on the larger phenomenon of the dominance of weird fiction in the twenty-first century.

Contributors: Jessica George; Brian Johnson, Carleton U; James Kneale, U College London; Patricia MacCormack, Anglia Ruskin U, Cambridge; Jed Mayer, SUNY New Paltz; China Miéville, Warwick U; W. Scott Poole, College of Charleston; David Punter, U of Bristol; David Simmons, Northampton U; Isabella van Elferen, Kingston U London.

The Age of Lovecraft

$20.34 FREE Shipping on orders over $35. This title has not yet been released. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.

Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.

H. P. Lovecraft

86

Hardcover
$27.50
Paula Guran
Paperback
$14.95
Jacqueline Baker
Hardcover
William Sloane

13

Paperback
$11.42
H. P. Lovecraft

11

Paperback
$5.90

Special Offers and Product Promotions

Pre-order Price Guarantee! Order now and if the Amazon.com price decreases between your order time and the end of the day of the release date, you'll receive the lowest price. Here's how (restrictions apply)

NO_CONTENT_IN_FEATURE

Product Details

Paperback: 296 pages
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press (April 1, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0816699259
ISBN-13: 978-0816699254
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.5 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,515,564 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #144 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Genres & Styles > Horror & Supernatural
- #13787 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Regional & Cultural > United States
- #95803 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Philosophy

Customer Reviews

There are no customer reviews yet.

5 star
4 star
3 star
2 star
1 star

This item has not been released yet and is not eligible to be reviewed.

Conditions of Use
Privacy Notice
Interest-Based Ads

Pre-order $20.34