First published in the height of the “yellow nineties” and in the
shadow of the Oscar Wilde trials, Arthur Machen’s The Three
Impostors (1895) remains a relatively obscure text even as Machen
receives increasing attention for his contributions to supernatural
horror, the weird, and even science fiction. Situating this
generically uncertain, richly multi-layered text in transnational
traditions of the short-story cycle, the print culture of the 1890s,
and the colonial scientific and material cultures of the fin de
siècle, this edition shows that Machen’s long-neglected text has a
strong claim to our renewed attention today. An extensive selection of
accompanying historical documents includes contemporary reviews,
related literary “inter-texts,” and documents and images related
to the book’s publication history, design, and relationship to
contemporary print culture.
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ISBN
9781460408070
Published
2023
Publisher
Broadview Press
Language
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Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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