By James Goho
ISBN-10: 1442231459
ISBN-13: 9781442231450
In
Journeys into Darkness: serious Essays on Gothic Horror, James Goho analyzes many major writers and developments in American and British horror fiction. starting with Charles Brockden Brown’s stressful novels of terror and insanity, Goho proceeds to debate the effect of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the home of Usher” on H. P. Lovecraft, who's handled in different penetrating essays. Lovecraft used to be a uniquely philosophical author, and Goho techniques his paintings throughout the lens of existentialist thinker Søren Kierkegaard, whereas additionally probing Lovecraft’s racism as exhibited in different stories approximately local american citizens. Goho additionally discusses the Welsh author Arthur Machen’s tortured stories of affliction and evil and Algernon Blackwood’s a variety of tales set within the wilds of the Canadian backwoods. The ebook concludes with a centuries-spanning essay at the witchcraft subject within the American Gothic culture and a entire essay on Fritz Leiber’s invention of the city Gothic.In this wide-ranging examine, James Goho examines the various ways that supernatural fiction can tackle the inner most ethical, social, and political issues of the human adventure.
Journeys into Darkness might be of curiosity to readers and students of horror fiction and to scholars of literary heritage and tradition ordinarily.
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