The Victorian Ghost Story and Theology
Autor: | Lehmann Imfeld, Zoe |
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EAN: | 9783319302188 |
Auflage: | 001 |
Sachgruppe: | Pädagogik |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 200 |
Produktart: | Gebunden |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 08.08.2016 |
Untertitel: | From Le Fanu to James |
Schlagworte: | Anglistik / Literaturwissenschaft England / Sprache Englisch Literaturwissenschaft |
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This book argues that theology is central to an understanding of the literary ghost story. Victorian ghost stories have traditionally been read in the context of agnosticism ¿ as stories which reveal a society struggling with Christian orthodoxy in a new ¿Enlightened¿ world. This book, however, uses theological ideas from St Augustine through to modern theologians to identify a theological journey taken by the protagonists of such stories, and charts each stage of this journey through the short stories it examines. It also proposes a theory of reader participation which creates an imaginary space in which modern epistemology is suspended. The book studies the work of four major authors of the supernatural tale: Arthur Machen, M.R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Henry James.