{"product_id":"arthur-machen-critical-essays-9781793635464","title":"Arthur Machen: Critical Essays","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eArthur Machen: Critical Essays offers a study of the works by Arthur Machen (1863-1947), the Welsh writer who has attracted a cult following for decades, especially among fans and scholars of weird fiction and Gothic studies. These essays take readers into different areas and address several topics in Machen's literary production: the literary, the artistic, the scientific, the religious, the socio-cultural, and the personal. The twelve chapters constituting the volume examine the representation of human beings in the writer's works and their relationship with the surrounding environment, whether it is the omnipresent London or the mysterious, menacing nature. The contributors also interpret Machen's writings through a series of disciplines and academic theories that were contemporary to the writer (such as paleontology and medicine) and demonstrate how he was influenced by the scientific discourses of his time and reproduced them in his works. The last section of the volume considers Machen's interest in the occult and mysticism and the religious themes present in many of his works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Arthur Machen: His Life, His Works, and His Critics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntonio Sanna\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Human Beings and Their Environments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: ‘A London cognita and a London incognita’: Contesting London in Arthur Machen’s The London Adventure, or the Art of Wandering\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmanda M. Caleb\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: The Problem of Agency in Arthur Machen’s The Terror\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancesco Corigliano \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Heterotopic Spaces in Machen’s Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntonio Sanna \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Dead Matter: Posthumanism and Stones\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Emiliano Aguilar \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Darwinism and Degeneration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Fear and Fossils: The Legacy of Arthur Machen’s ‘Little People’ Stories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJustin Phillip Mullis \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: ‘Dissolution and Change’: Reading The Great God Pan as Monstrous Adaptation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJessica George\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Lucian’s Ornaments in Jade: Symbolist Decadence in Arthur Machen’s Prose Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKostas Boyiopoulos\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: ‘A Substance as Jelly’: Helen Vaughan as Infectious Pathogen in The Great God Pan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLoredana Salis and Laura Mauro\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III: Spirituality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: ‘[A] mystic, ineffable force and energy’: Arthur Machen and Theories of New Materialism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdrian Tait \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Occult Investigations in Arthur Machen’s Detective Stories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeborah Bridle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Through the Ancient Wood: Envisioning Apophatic Mysticism in A Fragment of Life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeoffrey Reiter \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12: A ‘Miracle’ In No Man’s Land?: Arthur Machen and the Angels of Mons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew R. Lenoir\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042669756759,"sku":"9781793635464","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793635464.jpg?v=1750955100","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/arthur-machen-critical-essays-9781793635464","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}