Theology, horror and fiction: a reading of the Gothic nineteenth century

Introduction: Gothic and theology -- Monstrosity and the problem of evil: A theologico-literary understanding of personhood in Frankenstein and Paradise Lost -- 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God': Gothic revelation and monstrous theology in the Gothic's Calvinist legacy -- Gothic...

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1. Verfasser: Greenaway, Jonathan (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; London ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney Bloomsbury Academic 2021
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: Gothic and theology -- Monstrosity and the problem of evil: A theologico-literary understanding of personhood in Frankenstein and Paradise Lost -- 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God': Gothic revelation and monstrous theology in the Gothic's Calvinist legacy -- Gothic writing and political theology: Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre as theological texts -- 'Through a Glass Darkly': Reading the Victorian ghost story theologically -- The limitations of materialism: Fin-de-siècle Gothic, sin and subjectivity and the insufficiency of degeneration -- Conclusion: Through the Gothic castle, back to theology
"This theological reading of canonical texts of the 19th-century Gothic posits the religious themes of the Gothic as essential to understanding the form as a whole"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:198 Seiten
ISBN:9781501351785

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