Quite understand you being wary of Camp, but in this case, he was quoting sources.
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"And of course, the casual antisemitism in the characterization of
Wolfsheim shows that Fitzgerald had some obsessions of his own." What an odd thing to point out, the rest of your argument considered?
Is that so? Had no trouble locating the thread, myself. Anyway, to the matter at hand: Obviously The Great Gatsby does not describe the life of the majority at that time: it is not supposed to. It is a depiction of polite 1920ties East Coast society: the same society Lovecraft himself felt part of. You are free to…
But several people, including Houellebecq & Joshua Alston, claim it did so in Lovecrafts case.
It was a horribly racist period ( Lovecraft was contemporary with Hitler ) but it was a point of special interest to him. Take The Great Gatsby's Tom Buchanan, for example: his racist ranting does not cause any great outrage among the other characters, but neither do they engage in it themselves: such behavior is…
A very eclectic hades - which, as you yourself point out, is both a strength & a weakness.
Aha? What about Cujo, or It?
Oh, quite agree on that! Lovecraft's racism merely became more discriminating as he aged ( such as his growing awareness that Jewishness is not a biological race ). His fear of an apocalyptic racial intermingling with black people was, if anything, intensified.
Yes, obviously: one is sorry if one came to imply any such thing. was merely attempting perspective. In and as so far Mr. Miéville & Mr. Moore have been able to improve on Lovecraft, it is because there was already Lovecraftian matter to improve.
Happy to oblige. The article is thought to be one of the turning points in Lovecraft's acceptance by the US literary establishment ( following, as so often is the case, in the footsteps of France )
Or the cruel empire of Tsan Chan. But we know from his letters that he believed yellow people to be the equal of white people ( he mentions a rather disturbing hypothetical example of a Japanese child being surgically altered to look white & brought up by Americans: in his view, that child would be indistinguishable…
He may have been inspired by a latter - day version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
Quite likely he would not have found a mastermind of "inferior race" convincing. Except, of course, for Marceline
de Russys http://www.hplovecraft.com/… because Lovecraft considered black women to be a horror equal to Cthulhu, apparently.
Rise of of the third reich, segregation laws, etc? Though, granted, Moslems were not in focus in the same way back then.
I have my doubts about that: they were conservative in distinct ways. Observe, if you will, James comment on "…. one H.P. Lovecraft, whose style is of the most offensive. He uses the
word cosmic about 24 times"
To give the article its due, the 1930ties are a better fit, I fear.
Lovecraft was quite erudite: his "Supernatural Horror in Literature" was admired by M. R. James, of all people http://www.users.globalnet….
>Cough< Count Magnus >cough<. Not typical, perhaps, but that limb like unto "the tentacle of a devil-fish" rather sticks to the mind.
May one reccomend P. H. cannon's Lovecraft / Wodehouse pastiche, Scream for Jeeves ?