"The first comprehensive study of the works of William Hope Hodgson, one of the true innovators of Weird fiction, this book digs into 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. Calling upon such standout works 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 vernacular intervention; his depictions of racial and ethnic differences and gender and sexuality;…mehr
"The first comprehensive study of the works of William Hope Hodgson, one of the true innovators of Weird fiction, this book digs into 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. Calling upon such standout works 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 vernacular intervention; 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; the influence of the sea; and his use of abysmal 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 Miâeville, 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, wherein his work challenges what has thus far been accepted about the genre and the frames through which we view it"--
Timothy S. Murphy is Houston-Truax-Wentz Professor & Regents Professor of English at Oklahoma State University, USA. He is author of Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs (1998), Antonio Negri: Modernity and the Multitude (2012), and over 30 scholarly articles on H.P. Lovecraft, Olaf Stapledon, William Morris, and a wide variety of other subjects. General editor of the scholarly journal Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture from 2000 to 2013, he is also editor of The Philosophy of Antonio Negri (2 volumes, 2005-2007) as well as seven special journal issues for Angelaki, Genre, Sub-Stance, and Theory and Event.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface: Weird Before the Weird Introduction: Decognition and the Labor of the Weird Part 1: Hope in Space and Time Chapter 1: The Larger English Chapter 2: Spoken to My Own Brother Chapter 3: Teach Him to Know a Man Part 2: Hope Out of Place Chapter 4: The Sea is All the God There Is Chapter 5: A Cemetery of Lost Ships and Wrack and Forgotten Things Chapter 6: Familiar Land of Strangeness Part 3: Hope Out of Time Chapter 7: The Time That is Left Us Chapter 8: That Song Past Human Tongue to Sing Chapter 9: Beautiful Things Hid in the Abyss of the Years Envoi: Hope's Legacy Bibliography Index
Preface: Weird Before the Weird Introduction: Decognition and the Labor of the Weird Part 1: Hope in Space and Time Chapter 1: The Larger English Chapter 2: Spoken to My Own Brother Chapter 3: Teach Him to Know a Man Part 2: Hope Out of Place Chapter 4: The Sea is All the God There Is Chapter 5: A Cemetery of Lost Ships and Wrack and Forgotten Things Chapter 6: Familiar Land of Strangeness Part 3: Hope Out of Time Chapter 7: The Time That is Left Us Chapter 8: That Song Past Human Tongue to Sing Chapter 9: Beautiful Things Hid in the Abyss of the Years Envoi: Hope's Legacy Bibliography Index
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