Fear and (non) fiction: Agrarian anxiety in “The Colour Out of Space”

<p>This literary and sociological study examines H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space” alongside New England agricultural societies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as their members faced socio-political change. Anxieties expressed in the short story reflect fears of communities facing erasure at the hands of a reservoir project. Patterns of historical American rural communities facing destruction in the name of progress as well as modern communities facing similar threats show the endurance of Lovecraft’s specific brand of fear.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English Language and Literature

Year dc:date.available

2018

Author dc:creator

• Barroso, Antonio

Contributors dc:contributor

• Charles Cunningham, PhD
• Abby Coykendall, PhD

• Agrarian
• Horror
• Industrial
• Lovecraft
• Oil
• Resevoir
• Agriculture
• American Literature
• United States History

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.emich.edu/theses/925

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.emich.edu:theses-2292