William Hope Hodgson and the Rise of the Weird

Possibilities of the Dark

Dr Timothy S. Murphy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-36573-5 (ISBN)

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The first comprehensive study of the works of William Hope Hodgson, one of the true innovators of Weird fiction, this book examines the Weird novels and stories upon which his posthumous reputation rests, his non-fantastic writing, identifiable literary influences, and the historical contexts in which he wrote. Focusing extensively upon major works such as The House on the Borderland (1908) and The Night Land (1912), Timothy S. Murphy surveys topics including Hodgson’s experiments with code switching and linguistic experimentation; his depictions of racial and ethnic differences and gender and sexuality; the function of space and place in his writing; the adaptation of his shipboard experiences; and his use of abyssal time. With special attention paid to his paradoxical nihilist humanism, this book explores what made Hodgson a respected precursor to later innovators such as H. P. Lovecraft and C.L. Moore, and what makes him an important ancestor to 21st-century writers such as China Miéville, Greg Bear, and Charlie Jane Anders.

Demonstrating how his work is both of his time and ‘untimely’, Murphy recovers Hodgson as the most significant figure to precede the fantastically popular but deeply controversial Lovecraft, as well as a figure whose work challenges what has thus far been accepted about the genre and the interpretive perspectives from which we view it.

Timothy S. Murphy is Houston-Truax-Wentz Professor & Regents Professor of English at Oklahoma State University, USA. He is author of Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs (1998), Antonio Negri: Modernity and the Multitude (2012), and over 30 scholarly articles on H.P. Lovecraft, Olaf Stapledon, William Morris, and a wide variety of other subjects. General editor of the scholarly journal Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture from 2000 to 2013, he is also editor of The Philosophy of Antonio Negri (2 volumes, 2005-2007) as well as seven special journal issues for Angelaki, Genre, Sub-Stance, and Theory and Event.

Preface: Weird Before the Weird

Introduction: Decognition and the Labor of the Weird

Part 1: Hope in Space and Time
Chapter 1: The Larger English
Chapter 2: Spoken to My Own Brother
Chapter 3: Teach Him to Know a Man

Part 2: Hope Out of Place
Chapter 4: The Sea is All the God There Is
Chapter 5: A Cemetery of Lost Ships and Wrack and Forgotten Things
Chapter 6: Familiar Land of Strangeness

Part 3: Hope Out of Time
Chapter 7: The Time That is Left Us
Chapter 8: That Song Past Human Tongue to Sing
Chapter 9: Beautiful Things Hid in the Abyss of the Years

Envoi: Hope’s Legacy

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.1.2025
Reihe/Serie	Perspectives on Fantasy
Zusatzinfo	1 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
	Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-36573-4 / 1350365734
ISBN-13	978-1-350-36573-5 / 9781350365735
Zustand	Neuware