Ramsey Campbell Hardback
by Keith M. C. O'Sullivan
Part of the Gothic Authors: Critical Revisions series
Hardback
Description
This book pays overdue attention to the British writer Ramsey Campbell, a key figure in the post-1970s boom in Anglo-American horror fiction.
Despite a huge output and receiving every accolade within his field over a long career, Campbell has not yet been accorded anything like the wider critical recognition given to his contemporary Stephen King.
This study concentrates also on Campbell’s neglected novels and novellas, rather than the short stories for which he has been better known.
The book Ramsey Campbell establishes the author’s unique prose style, denoted by a haunted self-consciousness about the act of writing and role of readership, and his distinctive mediation of the Gothic tradition: religiously agnostic, politically liberal and ethically humane.
For the first time, Campbell’s works are interpreted in the contexts of trends in postmodernist and posthumanist thought and compared explicitly to King’s, and his contribution to both Gothic studies and wider contemporary literature is appraised.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages, No
- Publisher:University of Wales Press
- Publication Date:15/05/2023
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- ISBN:9781786839855
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages, No
- Publisher:University of Wales Press
- Publication Date:15/05/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781786839855
