Titlebook: Weird Fiction in Britain 1880–1939; James Machin Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 gothic.horror.Decadence.su

EXULT

Shiel, Stenbock, Gilchrist, and Machen,hetic distinctions can lead to weird fiction being a conscious attempt at achieving literary respectability, free of the (to some) problematically déclassé implications of popular genres such as horror. He also looks at some other key contexts to the weird fiction of this period, including orientalism and the arabesque.

Dislocation

Solace

AVERT

and Pulp Decadence,ge of Modernism. Underlying this discussion, and concluding a structural theme of the entire thesis, is a consideration of canonicity, and of the polluting of neat boundaries between notions of high and low culture.

magnanimity

misanthrope

Introduction,ird, and its crossovers with contemporary cultural theory and philosophy. Grounding the period focus of the book in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he then provides a genealogy/etymology of the literary applications of the word ‘weird’ across that period.

arboretum

Obligatory

Bureaucracy

Budget