TY - GEN digital ID - 131670754 TI - Weird Fiction in Britain 1880–1939 PY - 2018 SN - 9783319905273 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Sociology of culture KW - Fiction KW - Thematology KW - English literature KW - populaire cultuur KW - Gothic KW - fantasy KW - literatuur KW - Machen, Arthur KW - Buchan, John KW - Lovecraft, H.P. KW - Shiel, M.P. KW - Stenbock, Eric Stanislaus KW - Gilchrist, R. Murray KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - anno 1900-1909 KW - anno 1910-1919 KW - anno 1920-1929 KW - anno 1930-1939 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131670754 AB - This book is the first study of how ‘weird fiction’ emerged from Victorian supernatural literature, abandoning the more conventional Gothic horrors of the past for the contemporary weird tale. It investigates the careers and fiction of a range of the British writers who inspired H. P. Lovecraft, such as Arthur Machen, M. P. Shiel, and John Buchan, to shed light on the tensions between ‘literary’ and ‘genre’ fiction that continue to this day. Weird Fiction in Britain 1880–1939 focuses on the key literary and cultural contexts of weird fiction of the period, including Decadence, paganism, and the occult, and discusses how these later impacted on the seminal American pulp magazine Weird Tales. This ground-breaking book will appeal to scholars of weird, horror and Gothic fiction, genre studies, Decadence, popular fiction, the occult, and Fin-de-Siècle cultural history. . ER -