Dystopia as Utopia: Howard Phillips Lovecraft and the Unknown Content of American Horror Literature
| Dystopia as Utopia: Howard Phillips Lovecraft and the Unknown Content of American Horror Literature | |
|---|---|
| Paul Buhle | |
| The Minnesota Review Spring 1976 |
Abstract
An essay on the historical placement of Lovecraft in the continuum of American horror fiction, emphasizing HPL as a "profound child of Poe," and addressing aspects of politics, xenophobia, HPL's dislike of Surrealism, and other aspects of his writing.
Works Cited
Books
- Black Jacobins
- The Book of the Damned
- Breakdown: The Collapse of Traditional Civilization
- Claude Levi-Strauss: An Introduction
- Dagon and Other Macabre Stories
- The Dark Beasts
- The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories
- The Hounds of Tindalos
- H. P. Lovecraft: The Outsider in Legend and Myth
- Ignatius Donnelly: Portrait of a Politician
- Poseidonis
- Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft
- Writings in the United Amateur
Articles
- His Own Most Fantastic Creation: Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- In Defence of Dagon
- The Utopia, the City and the Machine
Letters
Cited By
- The Artist as Antaeus: Lovecraft and Modernism
- Lovecraft's Alien Civilizations: A Political Interpretation
- The Structure Of Lovecraft's Longer Narratives
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