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