Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 1

Lovecraftian Proceedings is the Official Organ of the Dr. Henry Armitage Memorial Symposium. Established in 2013 as a key part of NecronomiCon Providence, the Armitage Symposium fosters exploration of Lovecraft as a rationalist who created an elaborate cosmic mythology, and how this mythology was influenced by, and has come to influence, numerous other authors and artists. Table of Contents Preface JOHN MICHAEL SEFEL Introduction NIELS-VIGGO S. HOBBS Poe, Lovecraft, and “the Uncanny”: The Horror of the Self ANTHONY CONRAD CHIEFFALO “A Stalking Monster”: The Influence of Radiation Poisoning on H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour out of Space” ANDY TROY Dead Lies Dreaming: H. P. Lovecraft and the Other Side of Modernity ANDREW LENOIR Lovecraftian Milton: Prophetic Certainties, Romantic Rebellions, and Horrific Imaginings in the Weird Worlds of Milton and Lovecraft MARCELLO C. RICCIARDI The Failed Promises of Rationality: Sam J. Lundwall on the Individual Lost in an Uncaring and Soulless World LARS G. E. BACKSTROM New England’s Curator: Colonial Revival in the Travelogue and Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft KENNETH W. LAI Lovecraft, Fear, and the Medieval Body Frame PERRY NEIL HARRISON Attempting to “Untangle” the Mind, Body, and Phallus in Lovecraft’s “The Thing on the Doorstep” ZACK REARIC The Shadow of His Smile: Humor in H. P. Lovecraft’s Fiction STEPHEN WALKER Monstrous Modernism: H. P. Lovecraft’s Theory of the Aesthetic in Modernity JASON RAY CARNEY Dagon and Derrida: The Modern and Post-Modern in Dialogue in the Cthulhu Mythos LYLE ENRIGHT I and Cthulhu: Using Martin Buber’s Ontology of Dialogue to Examine H. P. Lovecraft’s Cosmic Dread DANIEL HOLMES Thinking Ecocritically: A Look at Embodiment and Nature in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft CORY WILLARD Genuine Pagans: A Foray into Lovecraftian Religions DENNIS P. QUINN Appendix: Abstracts of Papers Presented at NecronomiCon Providence—Emerging Scholarship Symposium CHAIR: JOHN MICHAEL SEFEL Index Read more