Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 2

 

This second volume of Lovecraftian Proceedings contains a wealth of cutting-edge scholarship on the dreamer from Providence, including substantial articles from both recipients of the S. T. Joshi Endowed Research Fellowship for H. P. Lovecraft at Brown University.  Lovecraftian Proceedings 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. The papers which comprise Lovecraftian Proceedings were presented during a key part of the NecronomiCon Providence convention, the Dr. Henry Armitage Memorial Symposium.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Introduction            

Dennis P. Quinn

 

Dreams of Antiquity:  H. P. Lovecraft's Great Roman Dream of 1927

Byron Nakamura

 

The Poet’s Nightmare: The Nature of Things According to Lovecraft

Sean Moreland

 

Reordering the Universe: H. P. Lovecraft’s Subversion of the Biblical Divine

René J. Weise

 

Resisting Cthulhu:  Milton and Lovecraft’s Errand in the Wilderness

 Marcello Ricciardi

 

“The Discriminating Urban Landscapist": Tradition and Innovation in the Architectural Writings of H. P. Lovecraft

Connor Pitetti

 

Tentacles in the Madhouse: The Role of the Asylum in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft

Troy Rondinone

 

Unspeakable Languages: Lovecraft Editions in Spanish

 Juan L. Pérez-de-Luque

 

Color out of Mind: Correlating the Cthulhu Mythos Universe to the Autism Disorder Spectrum

Lars G. Backstrom

 

Darwin and the Deep Ones: Anthropological Anxiety in "The Shadow over Innsmouth" and Other Stories

Jeffrey Shanks

 

The “Inside” of H. P. Lovecraft’s Supernatural Horror in the Visual Arts

 Nathaniel R. Wallace

 

H. P. Lovecraft’s Optimism

Matthew Beach

 

Insider, Outsider: From the Commonplace to the Uncanny in H. P. Lovecraft’s Narration and Descriptions

Daphnée Tasia Bourdages-Athanassiou

H. P. Lovecraft, Georges Bataille, and the Fascination of the Formless: One Crawling Chaos Seen Emerging from Opposite Shores

Christian Roy 

 

Ripples from Carcosa: H. P. Lovecraft, True Detective, and the Artist-Investigator

Heather Poirier

 

Lovecraft for the Little Ones: ParaNorman, Plushies, and More

Faye Ringel and Jenna Randall

 

Contributors

 

Appendix

Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Dr. Henry Armitage Memorial Scholarship Symposium,

NecronomiCon Providence 20-23 August, 2015

Chair: Dennis P. Quinn

 

Index