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Renegades and Rogues : The Life and Legacy of Robert E. Howard / Todd B. Vick.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781477321966
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.5 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3515.O842 Z89 2021
  • PS3515.O842 Z89 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Who Is Robert E. Howard? -- Chapter One. Pioneering Stories: The Family of Robert E. Howard -- Chapter Two. From Birth to Bagwell -- Chapter Three. Cross Cut and Burkett -- Chapter Four. The Birth of a Writer -- Chapter Five. Tattlers and Yellow Jackets -- Chapter Six. Pulp Fictioneer -- Chapter Seven. The Other Side of the Counter -- Chapter Eight. A New Species of Fantasy Fiction -- Chapter Nine. Friends and Letters -- Chapter Ten. Novalyne Price -- Chapter Eleven. Broken on the Plowshare of Fate -- Chapter Twelve. The Aftermath -- Chapter Thirteen. Writing a Legacy: Selected Stories -- Chapter Fourteen. Full Circle: The Publishing Journey of a Barbarian -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Who Is Robert E. Howard? -- Chapter One. Pioneering Stories: The Family of Robert E. Howard -- Chapter Two. From Birth to Bagwell -- Chapter Three. Cross Cut and Burkett -- Chapter Four. The Birth of a Writer -- Chapter Five. Tattlers and Yellow Jackets -- Chapter Six. Pulp Fictioneer -- Chapter Seven. The Other Side of the Counter -- Chapter Eight. A New Species of Fantasy Fiction -- Chapter Nine. Friends and Letters -- Chapter Ten. Novalyne Price -- Chapter Eleven. Broken on the Plowshare of Fate -- Chapter Twelve. The Aftermath -- Chapter Thirteen. Writing a Legacy: Selected Stories -- Chapter Fourteen. Full Circle: The Publishing Journey of a Barbarian -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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