{"product_id":"the-love-of-ruins-scott-cutler-shershow-9781438465104","title":"The Love of Ruins: Letters on Lovecraft","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday, H. P. Lovecraft is both more popular and controversial than ever: the influence of his \"Cthulhu mythos\" is everywhere in popular culture, his cosmic pessimism has reemerged as a major theme in contemporary philosophy, and his racism continues to spark controversy in the media. \u003ci\u003eThe Love of Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e takes a fresh look at a figure widely acknowledged as the father of modern horror or \"weird\" fiction. In these pages, Lovecraft emerges not as the atheist and nihilist he is often claimed to be, but as a kind of \"psychonaut\" and mystic whose stories, through their own imaginative rigor, expose the intellectual bankruptcy of their author's racism. \u003ci\u003eThe Love of Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e is itself written in the form of letters, in order to do homage to Lovecraft's love of the form of the personal letter (he wrote more than 100,000), and to emulate Lovecraft's lifetime practice of thinking-as-corresponding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Scott Cutler Shershow,Scott Michaelsen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438465106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438465104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Scott Cutler Shershow","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48453631836415,"sku":"9781438465104","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_68db3026-d61a-4bbf-b8f7-917b30172797.jpg?v=1777301305","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-love-of-ruins-scott-cutler-shershow-9781438465104","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}