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Ramsey Campbell 1st Edition â€“ PDF/EPUB Version Downloadable

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Author(s): Keith M. C. O'Sullivan
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 9781786839855
Edition: 1st Edition

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This book pays overdue attention to the British writer Ramsey Campbell, a key figure in the post-1970s boom in Anglo-American horror fiction. Despite a huge output and receiving every accolade within his field over a long career, Campbell has not yet been accorded anything like the wider critical recognition given to his contemporary Stephen King. This study concentrates also on Campbellâ€™s neglected novels and novellas, rather than the short stories for which he has been better known. The book Ramsey Campbell establishes the authorâ€™s unique prose style, denoted by a haunted self-consciousness about the act of writing and role of readership, and his distinctive mediation of the Gothic tradition: religiously agnostic, politically liberal and ethically humane. For the first time, Campbellâ€™s works are interpreted in the contexts of trends in postmodernist and posthumanist thought and compared explicitly to Kingâ€™s, and his contribution to both Gothic studies and wider contemporary literature is appraised.