Horror Fiction in the 20th Century
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4408-6205-2 (ISBN)
Horror Fiction in the 20th Century encompasses the world of 20th-century horror literature and explores it in a critical but balanced fashion. Readers will be exposed to the world of horror literature, a truly global phenomenon during the 20th century.
Beginning with the modern genre's roots in the 19th century, the book proceeds to cover 20th-century horror literature in all of its manifestations, whether in comics, pulps, paperbacks, hardcover novels, or mainstream magazines, and from every country that produced it. The major horror authors of the century receive their due, but the works of many authors who are less well-known or who have been forgotten are also described and analyzed. In addition to providing critical assessments and judgments of individual authors and works, the book describes the evolution of the genre and the major movements within it.
Horror Fiction in the 20th Century stands out from its competitors and will be of interest to its readers because of its informed critical analysis, its unprecedented coverage of female authors and writers of color, and its concise historical overview.
Jess Nevins is an instruction and reference librarian at Lone Star College-Tomball.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Why Write About Horror?
What Is Horror Fiction?
American and British Horror Literature Before the Twentieth Century
International Horror
Part One 1901–1939, The Golden Age
Chapter 1 British Writers
The "Classical" Tradition(s)
The Machen Quartet
Breaks with Tradition
Naturalism and the Psychological Ghost Story
Traditionalists and Holdovers
New Voices
The War Years
Voices of the Twenties
The End of the Golden Age
Chapter 2 American Writers
The Great Age of the American Ghost Story
East Coast versus West Coast
The East Coast School
Sexism and Great Age Content
East Coast Membership
The West Coast School
Exceptions
After Weird Tales' Debut
Chapter 3 Horror in the Pulps
Before Weird Tales
Weird Tales
H. P. Lovecraft
The Weird Tales Crew
What Lovecraft and Weird Tales Wrought, and What They Did Not
Outside of Weird Tales
The Shudder Pulps
The End of Weird Tales' Golden Age
Chapter 4 Horror in the Mainstream
The Creation of the Mainstream
Before the Great War
America
England
After the War
Chapter 5 Outside the Anglosphere, 1901–1939
Africa (Angola, Lesotho, Nigeria, South Africa)
The Americas (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela)
Asia (India, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Philippines)
Europe (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia and the Soviet Union, Spain)
The Middle East (Egypt, Iran, Turkey)
Part Two 1940–1970, Midcentury Frights
Chapter 6 American Writers
Ray Bradbury
Robert Bloch
Richard Matheson
Charles Beaumont
The Group
Fritz Leiber
Midcentury Writers of Horror
One-Shots
Chapter 7 British Writers
The Changing Landscape
The 1940s
The 1950s
The 1960s
Chapter 8 Horror in the Mainstream
The Effects of the War
American Writers
Writers of the United Kingdom
Chapter 9 Horror on the Cheap
Pulps and Digests
Paperbacks
Comics
Chapter 10 Outside the Anglosphere, 1940–1970
Africa (Angola, Congo, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Lesotho, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa)
The Americas (Argentina, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela)
Asia (India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines)
Europe (Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain)
The Middle East (Israel, Syria, Turkey)
Part Three 1971–2000, The Boom Years
Chapter 11 Horror as Big Business
American Best Sellers
The British Response
In the Mainstream
Chapter 12 The Boom and Bust of the 1980s and 1990s
Full-Timers
Part-Timers, Tourists, and Dabblers
RPG Fiction
Chapter 13 Short-Fiction Authors, 1971–2000
From Before the Boom
The 1970s Generation
The 1980s Generation
The 1990s Generation
Chapter 14 Horror for Children and Young Adults
1900–1960
The 1960s
The 1970s
The 1980s
The 1990s
Chapter 15 Outsiders Writing Horror
African American Writers
Australian Aboriginal Writers
Latinx Horror
Native American Horror
Queer Horror
Chapter 16 Outside the Anglosphere, 1971–2000
Africa (Congo, Guinea, Kenya, Mauritania, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa)
The Americas (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Québec, Venezuela)
Asia (China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand)
Europe (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland)
The Middle East (Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, Turkey)
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.02.2020 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 595 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Horror |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4408-6205-2 / 1440862052 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4408-6205-2 / 9781440862052 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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