William Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird
Possibilities of the Dark
Series: Perspectives on Fantasy;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 23 January 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350365735
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 229x150x13 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 bw illus 631
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Long description:
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.
Table of Contents:
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
