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The Secret Ceremonies: Critical Essays on Arthur Machen

The Secret Ceremonies: Critical Essays on Arthur Machen

Timothy J. Jarvis
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This important critical anthology offers over 20 essays on Machen, many of them newly written for the book. Contributors discuss the full range of Machen’s writing, including his association with Decadence, his incantatory prose style, his evocative writing about London and Gwent, his interest in ritual magic, alchemy and the occult, his Celtic Christianity, and his sense of the numinous.

As well as a full account of Machen’s period of peak artistry in the Nineties, the collection also covers his neglected later work. He never lost his deep interest in folklore and popular customs, eccentric characters and curious historical episodes, and contributors show how these continued to inform his work right up until his last writings.

This volume also reprints Machen’s own rueful and amusing commentary on his books, from the hard-to-find 1923 bibliography by Henry Danielson; Arthur Rickett’s “A Yellow Creeper,” an 1895 satire on Machen’s “The Great God Pan”; and Aleister Crowley’s views on the Angels of Mons and other hoaxes of the war.

The volume has been edited by Mark Valentine, who has written introductions to several of Machen’s books, and is the author of Arthur Machen and editor of the journal of the fantastic Wormwood; and Timothy J. Jarvis, co-editor of Faunus, the journal of The Friends of Arthur Machen, instructor in creative writing, and author of the novel The Wanderer and numerous works of short fiction.
Language
English
Pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Hippocampus Press
Release
August 20, 2019
ISBN
1614982457
ISBN 13
9781614982456

The Secret Ceremonies: Critical Essays on Arthur Machen

Timothy J. Jarvis
4.1/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
This important critical anthology offers over 20 essays on Machen, many of them newly written for the book. Contributors discuss the full range of Machen’s writing, including his association with Decadence, his incantatory prose style, his evocative writing about London and Gwent, his interest in ritual magic, alchemy and the occult, his Celtic Christianity, and his sense of the numinous.

As well as a full account of Machen’s period of peak artistry in the Nineties, the collection also covers his neglected later work. He never lost his deep interest in folklore and popular customs, eccentric characters and curious historical episodes, and contributors show how these continued to inform his work right up until his last writings.

This volume also reprints Machen’s own rueful and amusing commentary on his books, from the hard-to-find 1923 bibliography by Henry Danielson; Arthur Rickett’s “A Yellow Creeper,” an 1895 satire on Machen’s “The Great God Pan”; and Aleister Crowley’s views on the Angels of Mons and other hoaxes of the war.

The volume has been edited by Mark Valentine, who has written introductions to several of Machen’s books, and is the author of Arthur Machen and editor of the journal of the fantastic Wormwood; and Timothy J. Jarvis, co-editor of Faunus, the journal of The Friends of Arthur Machen, instructor in creative writing, and author of the novel The Wanderer and numerous works of short fiction.
Language
English
Pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Hippocampus Press
Release
August 20, 2019
ISBN
1614982457
ISBN 13
9781614982456

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