Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823229857
- eISBN:
- 9780823241040
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823229857.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Women's Literature
This chapter is explicitly about violence. It deals with stories about women, children, and even animals that are confined, murdered, and abused by fathers, husbands, and presumed protectors — and ...
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This chapter is explicitly about violence. It deals with stories about women, children, and even animals that are confined, murdered, and abused by fathers, husbands, and presumed protectors — and about restless spirits that mutely testify to these transgressions. In this chapter the author divides his attention between well-established authors and lesserknown or virtually unknown figures. He does so for three reasons: first, to establish that these concerns about the roles of women in American culture were shared by a range of female authors; second, to reread familiar authors in light of the broader context of supernatural fiction by American women; and third, to direct attention to authors and works that he feels have been unjustly neglected. As the chapter progresses, the scope of the critique broadens. Whereas Spofford and Stowe focus specifically on the plight of women, Hoyt includes children, and Wharton, most damningly of all, extends the analysis to animals.Less
This chapter is explicitly about violence. It deals with stories about women, children, and even animals that are confined, murdered, and abused by fathers, husbands, and presumed protectors — and about restless spirits that mutely testify to these transgressions. In this chapter the author divides his attention between well-established authors and lesserknown or virtually unknown figures. He does so for three reasons: first, to establish that these concerns about the roles of women in American culture were shared by a range of female authors; second, to reread familiar authors in light of the broader context of supernatural fiction by American women; and third, to direct attention to authors and works that he feels have been unjustly neglected. As the chapter progresses, the scope of the critique broadens. Whereas Spofford and Stowe focus specifically on the plight of women, Hoyt includes children, and Wharton, most damningly of all, extends the analysis to animals.
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853239468
- eISBN:
- 9781846312991
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853239468.003.0021
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter focuses on events following Lovecraft's death on 15 March 1937. A funeral service was held on 18 March attended by small number of friends and relatives: Annie, Harry Brobst and his ...
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This chapter focuses on events following Lovecraft's death on 15 March 1937. A funeral service was held on 18 March attended by small number of friends and relatives: Annie, Harry Brobst and his wife, and Annie's friend Edna Lewis. The outpouring of grief from both the weird fiction and the amateur press was instantaneous and overwhelming; Lovecraft's death also inspired a significant number of poetic tributes. The chapter then discusses how an obscure writer, who died with no book issued by a major publisher, managed to attain worldwide renown as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the twentieth century.Less
This chapter focuses on events following Lovecraft's death on 15 March 1937. A funeral service was held on 18 March attended by small number of friends and relatives: Annie, Harry Brobst and his wife, and Annie's friend Edna Lewis. The outpouring of grief from both the weird fiction and the amateur press was instantaneous and overwhelming; Lovecraft's death also inspired a significant number of poetic tributes. The chapter then discusses how an obscure writer, who died with no book issued by a major publisher, managed to attain worldwide renown as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the twentieth century.
S. T. Joshi
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853239468
- eISBN:
- 9781846312991
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846312991
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
H. P. Lovecraft has come to be recognised as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the twentieth century. But how did a man who died in poverty, with no book of his stories published in his ...
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H. P. Lovecraft has come to be recognised as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the twentieth century. But how did a man who died in poverty, with no book of his stories published in his lifetime, become such an icon in horror literature? This book traces in detail the course of Lovecraft's life and shows how Lovecraft was engaged in the political, economic, social, and intellectual currents of his time.Less
H. P. Lovecraft has come to be recognised as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the twentieth century. But how did a man who died in poverty, with no book of his stories published in his lifetime, become such an icon in horror literature? This book traces in detail the course of Lovecraft's life and shows how Lovecraft was engaged in the political, economic, social, and intellectual currents of his time.
