New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature by Sean Moreland

Author:Sean Moreland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319954776
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Without exception, the Dandy texts that Lovecraft esteems all operate on an analogous type of reasoning, which pins aesthetic value against some form of normative (and thereby useful) social convention.

The works that Lovecraft names in Supernatural Horror in Literature by Théophile Gautier, whom Lovecraft considers an “exquisite stylist” (CE 2.189), offer a case in point. To cite a brief but nonetheless fitting example, in “The Mummy’s Foot,” a short story that conflates the identity of the Dandy with that of the antiquarian, the former’s vanity highlights the irony of using a mummy’s foot as a paperweight:I looked upon all who did not possess, like myself, a paper-weight so authentically Egyptian as very ridiculous people, and it seemed to me that the proper occupation of every sensible man should consist in the mere fact of having a mummy’s foot upon his desk.37

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