Table of Contents

Preface: Weird Before the Weird Introduction: Decognition and the Labor of the Weird Part 1: Hope in Space and Time Chapter 1: The Larger English Chapter 2: Spoken to My Own Brother Chapter 3: Teach Him to Know a Man Part 2: Hope Out of Place Chapter 4: The Sea is All the God There Is Chapter 5: A Cemetery of Lost Ships and Wrack and Forgotten Things Chapter 6: Familiar Land of Strangeness Part 3: Hope Out of Time Chapter 7: The Time That is Left Us Chapter 8: That Song Past Human Tongue to Sing Chapter 9: Beautiful Things Hid in the Abyss of the Years Envoi: Hope’s Legacy Bibliography Index

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The first comprehensive study of influential Weird fiction pioneer William Hope Hodgson’s novels and stories, which traces both the historical roots and the relevance of his work to contemporary fantasy and notions of the Weird

About the Author

Timothy S. Murphy is Houston-Truax-Wentz Professor & Regents Professor of English at Oklahoma State University, USA. He is author of Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs (1998), Antonio Negri: Modernity and the Multitude (2012), and over 30 scholarly articles on H.P. Lovecraft, Olaf Stapledon, William Morris, and a wide variety of other subjects. General editor of the scholarly journal Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture from 2000 to 2013, he is also editor of The Philosophy of Antonio Negri (2 volumes, 2005-2007) as well as seven special journal issues for Angelaki, Genre, Sub-Stance, and Theory and Event.