<i>Abundance and Other Stories</i>, and an ecocritical study of landscapes and monstrosity as expressions of Anthropocenic anxiety in the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft

A bridging statement which reflects on the creative process and the relationship between each component is also included.<br><br>Creative component: Abundance and Other Stories is a collection of nine short stories linked by the idea of ‘life in the Anthropocene.’ The Anthropocene is understood as a multivalent event which disturbs the normative relationship between humans and nature.

Through the mode of weird fiction, each story examines psychological and emotional responses to environmental degradation, depicting characters who sense the changing world and attempt to either rebuild their connections to it or flee from it, usually in dysfunctional ways which attempt to reaffirm narratives of human dominance. Nature resists these attempts and establishes its own sense of agency, often resulting in transformation or destruction for the humans.<br><br>Critical component: ‘An Ecocritical Reading of Landscapes and Monstrosity as Expressions of Anthropocenic Anxiety in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft’ studies a selection of stories from various points in Lovecraft’s career in relation to familiar themes of the Anthropocene.