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T1 Out of Space and into the Ground: Chemical and Water Pollution in H.P. Lovecraft’s New England
T2 Del espacio al suelo: contaminación química e hídrica en la Nueva Inglaterra de H.P. Lovecraft
A1 Bonati, Catalina
K1 ecoGothic
K1 H.P. Lovecraft
K1 pesticides
K1 water pollution
K1 wealth gap
K1 Rachel Carson
AB This paper discusses the influence of interwar environmental practices regarding chemi-cal and water pollution in New England on H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space”(1927) and “The Shunned House” (1937). It is argued that the literary Gothic traditionwhich Lovecraft builds upon is influenced by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of theSeven Gables (1851) and remodeled by Rachel Carson in Silent Spring (1962) as ecoGothicrealism. It is discussed that “The Colour Out of Space” extends Lovecraft’s personal writ-ings regarding the gap between class and politics in the face of growing wealth disparity. Itis commented how in “The Shunned House,” Lovecraft presents anti-immigration senti-ment while also advocating for integrated and preserved cities free of pollution, and thepaper concludes that for Lovecraft, changes in landscape and ecology reflect fundamentalchanges in New England society that are evidenced by commercialism and lack of properwaste management policies.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/32172
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/32172
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 15-may-2024