Format:
1 Online-Ressource (240 Seiten)
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Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781477321973
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9781477321966
Content:
You may not know the name Robert E. Howard, but you probably know his work. His most famous creation, Conan the Barbarian, is an icon of popular culture. In hundreds of tales detailing the exploits of Conan, King Kull, and others, Howard helped to invent the sword and sorcery genre. Todd B. Vick delves into newly available archives and probes Howard’s relationships, particularly with schoolteacher Novalyne Price, to bring a fresh, objective perspective to Howard's life. Like his many characters, Howard was an enigma and an outsider. He spent his formative years visiting the four corners of Texas, experiences that left a mark on his stories. He was intensely devoted to his mother, whom he nursed in her final days, and whose impending death contributed to his suicide in 1936 when he was just thirty years old. Renegades and Rogues is an unequivocal journalistic account that situates Howard within the broader context of pulp literature. More than a realistic fantasist, he wrote westerns and horror stories as well, and engaged in avid correspondence with H.P. Lovecraft and other pulp writers of his day. Vick investigates Howard’s twelve-year writing career, analyzes the influences that underlay his celebrated characters, and assesses the afterlife of Conan, the figure in whom Howard's fervent imagination achieved its most durable expression.
Note:
Includes index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781477321959
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Vick, Todd B. Renegades and rogues Austin : University of Texas Press, 2020 ISBN 9781477321959
Language:
English
Keywords:
Howard, Robert Ervin 1906-1936
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Biografie
Author information:
Howard, Robert Ervin 1906-1936
