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The Victorian ghost story and theology = from Le Fanu to James /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Victorian ghost story and theology/ by Zoe Lehmann Imfeld.
Reminder of title:	from Le Fanu to James /
Author:	Imfeld, Zoe Lehmann.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2016.,
Description:	x, 188 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Ghost stories, English - History and criticism. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30219-5
ISBN:	9783319302195

The Victorian ghost story and theology = from Le Fanu to James /
Imfeld, Zoe Lehmann.

The Victorian ghost story and theologyfrom Le Fanu to James /[electronic resource] :by Zoe Lehmann Imfeld. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2016. - x, 188 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. 'Strangely mistaking death for life': Arthur Machen -- 2. 'What is this that I have done?': M.R. James -- 3. 'These devils have made quite a saint of you.': Sheridan Le Fanu -- 4. 'He's there from the moment he knows somebody else is.': Haunted by Paralysis in the Stories of Henry James -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

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.

ISBN: 9783319302195

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-30219-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

800896
Ghost stories, English
--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PR830.G45 / I44 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 823.087330908

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