Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming - Paperback
Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming - Paperback
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by Antonio Alcala Gonzalez (Editor), Carl H. Sederholm (Editor)
Lovecraft in the 21st Century assembles reflections from a wide range of perspectives on the significance of Lovecraft's influence in contemporary times. Building on a focus centered on the Anthropocene, adaptation, and visual media, the chapters in this collection focus on the following topics:
- Adaptation of Lovecraft's legacy in theater, television, film, graphic narratives, video games and game artwork
- The connection between the writer's legacy and his life
- Reading Lovecraft in light of contemporary criticism about capitalism, the posthuman, and the Anthropocene
- How contemporary authors have worked through the implicit racial and sexual politics in Lovecraft's fiction
- Reading Lovecraft's fiction in light of contemporary approaches to gender and sexuality
Author Biography
Antonio Alcala Gonzalez is founder of the International Gothic Literature Congress and chair of the Humanities Department at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City.
Carl H. Sederholm is professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brigham Young University and chair of the Department of Comparative Arts and Letters.
