Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volume 1 by Joshi, S. T.
Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volume 1 by Joshi, S. T.

Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volume 1

S. T. Joshi is one of the leading authorities on weird fiction, and in this expansive new...
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Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volume 1 by Joshi, S. T.

Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volume 1

$67.15
Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volume 1 by Joshi, S. T.

Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volume 1

$67.15
Author: S. T. Joshi
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
S. T. Joshi is one of the leading authorities on weird fiction, and in this expansive new study he provides a comprehensive history and analysis of the entire range of weird fiction from antiquity to the present day. This first volume focuses on weird fiction from the Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 1700 B.C.E.) to the end of the nineteenth century. Joshi focuses on key works of Greek and Latin literature that introduced many long-enduring motifs in weird literature. Moving on down through Dante, Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Milton, Joshi provides a compact overview of the several different strands of Gothic fiction, beginning with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764) and culminating with Charles Robert Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), with detailed discussions of Ann Radcliffe, M. G. Lewis, Mary Shelley, and others. Edgar Allan Poe was a watershed in the history of weird fiction, and his fusion of psychological and supernatural horror was pioneering. He was followed by the prolific Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu, numerous practitioners of the English ghost story (including Henry James and Edith Wharton), and the cynical Ambrose Bierce. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, and others made weird fiction a genre that fused popular appeal with aesthetic richness.

Author: S. T. Joshi
Publisher: Hippocampus Press
Published: 10/31/2014
Pages: 374
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9781614980902

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