Author:
Joshi, S. T., 1958-
Edition Statement:First Hippocampus Press edition.
ImprintNew York : Hippocampus Press, 2014.
Description2 volumes (xiii, 783 pages) ; 23 cm
Note:Volume 1. From Gilgamesh to the end of the nineteenth century -- Introduction -- Anticipations -- The Gothics -- Interregnum -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Mid-Victorian horrors -- The deluge: British and European branch -- The deluge: American branch -- Epilogue -- volume 2. The twentieth and twenty-first centuries -- The titans -- Other early-twentieth century masters -- Novelists, satirists, and poets -- H.P. Lovecraft and his influence -- American pulpsmiths -- Horrors at midcentury -- Anticipations of the boom -- The boom: the blockbusters -- The boom: the literati -- The contemporary era -- Epilogue.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Joshi examines the aesthetic and philosophical issues involved in the introduction of the supernatural in a literary work, and traces the history of this literary mode from the time it became a recognized genre-- the later eighteenth century-- to the present day. His focus is on the major writers in the field.
