Fear and (non) fiction: Agrarian anxiety in “The Colour Out of Space”【翻译】

本文探讨H.P.洛夫克拉夫特的短篇小说《来自太空的颜色》中反映的社会焦虑，及其与19世纪末至20世纪初新英格兰农业社会面临社会政治变革的关系。通过对历史美国农村社区在进步名义下遭受破坏的模式，以及现代社区面对类似威胁的考察，展现了洛夫克拉夫特独特恐怖风格的持久影响力。

Abstract
This literary and sociological study examines H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space”
alongside New England agricultural societies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
as their members faced socio-political change. Anxieties expressed in the short story reflect fears
of communities facing erasure at the hands of a reservoir project. Patterns of historical American
rural communities facing destruction in the name of progress as well as modern communities
facing similar threats show the endurance of Lovecraft’s specific brand of fear.
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Table of Contents
Dedication…………………………………………………………………………………………ii
Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………………...iii
Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………..1
I. Biography of a Reactionary…………………………………………………………………….3
II. “The Colour Out of Space”……………………………………………………………….......11
III. Verisimilitude, American Gothic, and Puritan Roots……………………………………..…17
IV. The Doom That Came to the Swift River Valley……………………..……………………..23
V. West of Arkham the Hills Rise Wild…………………………………...…………………….38
VI. Juggernaut Drove His Car across the South…………………………………………..……..47
VII. The Colour of Oil…………………………………………………………………………...61
Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….68
Works Cited……………………………………………………………………………………...70