Reading Lovecraft in the Anthropocene: A New Dark Age [Hardcover]

In?Reading Lovecraft in the Anthropocene: A New Dark Age, the intersection of environmental, philosophical, and literary discourses is explored through the lens of H.P. Lovecrafts weird fiction.

Introduction

 

Part One: The Bad Seed

 

1. Weird Antecedents

2. Weird Decadence

3. Weird Ontology

 

Part Two: Weird Crops

 

4. Weird Dwellings

5. Weird Ecology

6. Weird Sensations

 

Part Three: Excrescence

 

7. Weird Posthuman/Prehuman

8. The Weird Postsecular

9. Weird Dreamscape

 

Closure: Minding the Gap

In Reading Lovecraft in the Anthropocene: A New Dark Age, the intersection of environmental, philosophical, and literary discourses is explored through the lens of H.P. Lovecrafts weird fiction. This study examines the convergence of three critical phenomena: the widespread recognition of the Anthropocene as a marker of human impact on the planet, the rise of speculative realism and Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) in contemporary philosophy, and the growing cultural and academic influence of Lovecrafts work.

Divided into three parts  Seeds, Crops, and Excrescence  the book traces Lovecrafts gothic and decadent influences, examines materiality and its transcendence in weird fiction, and considers the posthuman and postsecular dimensions of his narratives. Through this, the study highlights Lovecrafts role in navigating the challengeslT