H. P. Lovecraft: Midnight Studies
«This is not the H. P. Lovecraft we thought we knew. Lovecraft is a great writer and a famously difficult thinker, and Pedersen’s provocative and highly original argument is that he is fundamentally a figure in the European Romantic tradition, with close affiliations to Wordsworth and Coleridge, Byron and (especially) Keats. This is a fascinating book about which serious readers of Lovecraft will be arguing for years.»

(Professor Darryl Jones, Trinity College, Dublin)

This book offers a fresh perspective on the twentieth-century American weird fiction author H. P. Lovecraft and argues that the gentleman of Providence was a Romantic at heart. The book takes a philosophical approach and draws on Lovecraft’s essays, fiction and letters as well as poetry. Along the way, the reader is introduced to Lovecraft’s relationship with wonder, his aversion towards the cold light of reason, his teetotalism and his love of gardens, contemplation, joy, the dramatic, the strange, the foreign and the beautiful. Also, the reader is privy to an exploration of Lovecraft’s wonder-evoking tropes, the idea of dark wonder and what he called the Dunsanian Conjuration.

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H. P. Lovecraft: Midnight Studies
«This is not the H. P. Lovecraft we thought we knew. Lovecraft is a great writer and a famously difficult thinker, and Pedersen’s provocative and highly original argument is that he is fundamentally a figure in the European Romantic tradition, with close affiliations to Wordsworth and Coleridge, Byron and (especially) Keats. This is a fascinating book about which serious readers of Lovecraft will be arguing for years.»

(Professor Darryl Jones, Trinity College, Dublin)

This book offers a fresh perspective on the twentieth-century American weird fiction author H. P. Lovecraft and argues that the gentleman of Providence was a Romantic at heart. The book takes a philosophical approach and draws on Lovecraft’s essays, fiction and letters as well as poetry. Along the way, the reader is introduced to Lovecraft’s relationship with wonder, his aversion towards the cold light of reason, his teetotalism and his love of gardens, contemplation, joy, the dramatic, the strange, the foreign and the beautiful. Also, the reader is privy to an exploration of Lovecraft’s wonder-evoking tropes, the idea of dark wonder and what he called the Dunsanian Conjuration.

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H. P. Lovecraft: Midnight Studies

H. P. Lovecraft: Midnight Studies

by Jan B. W. Pedersen
H. P. Lovecraft: Midnight Studies

H. P. Lovecraft: Midnight Studies

by Jan B. W. Pedersen

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«This is not the H. P. Lovecraft we thought we knew. Lovecraft is a great writer and a famously difficult thinker, and Pedersen’s provocative and highly original argument is that he is fundamentally a figure in the European Romantic tradition, with close affiliations to Wordsworth and Coleridge, Byron and (especially) Keats. This is a fascinating book about which serious readers of Lovecraft will be arguing for years.»

(Professor Darryl Jones, Trinity College, Dublin)

This book offers a fresh perspective on the twentieth-century American weird fiction author H. P. Lovecraft and argues that the gentleman of Providence was a Romantic at heart. The book takes a philosophical approach and draws on Lovecraft’s essays, fiction and letters as well as poetry. Along the way, the reader is introduced to Lovecraft’s relationship with wonder, his aversion towards the cold light of reason, his teetotalism and his love of gardens, contemplation, joy, the dramatic, the strange, the foreign and the beautiful. Also, the reader is privy to an exploration of Lovecraft’s wonder-evoking tropes, the idea of dark wonder and what he called the Dunsanian Conjuration.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781803743073
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Publication date: 06/10/2024
Pages: 158
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

Philosopher Jan B. W. Pedersen is the author of Balanced Wonder: Experiential Sources of Imagination, Virtue, and Human Flourishing (2019). He teaches at University College Diakonissestiftelsen, Frederiksberg, Denmark and at Folkeuniversitetet, Aalborg, Denmark.

Table of Contents

Contents: On Lovecraft’s Lifelong Relationship with Wonder – Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Romantic on the Nightside – ‘Now Will You Be Good? ’: Lovecraft, Teetotalism and Philosophy – Lovecraft’s Garden: Heart’s Blood at the Root – Weird Fiction: A Catalyst for Wonder – H. P. Lovecraft and the Dunsanian Conjuration.
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