The Anglo-Saxons--Stoddard and Lovecraft: Ideas of Anglo-Saxon Supremacy and the New England Counter-Revolution

Authors

Benjamin M. Welton, Boston University

Short Title

Anglo-Saxons--Stoddard and Lovecraft & Counter-Revolution

Document Type

Article

Abstract

This paper attempts to explain the New England Counter-Revolution through two very different men--H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) and T. Lothrop Stoddard (1883-1950). While one was a respected and popular scholar, and the other was a little-known pulp writer, both men combined New England regionalism, a belief in Anglo-Saxon superiority, the primacy of modern science, and a belief in racial/eugenic differences to create a unique political paradigm little recognized at the time but influential today.

Recommended Citation

Welton, Benjamin M. (2021) "The Anglo-Saxons--Stoddard and Lovecraft: Ideas of Anglo-Saxon Supremacy and the New England Counter-Revolution," Madison Historical Review: Vol. 18, Article 3.
Available at: https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/mhr/vol18/iss1/3