‘Age of Lovecraft’?—Anthropocene Monsters in (New) Weird Narrative

This paper considers whether the twenty-first-century resurgence of H. P. Lovecraft and weird fiction can be read as a conceptual parallel to the Anthropocene epoch, taking Carl H. Sederholm and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s The Age of Lovecraft as a starting-point. The assumption is that the two ‘age...

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Main Author: Gry Ulstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2019-11-01
Series:Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur
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Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/5004