The Victorian Ghost Story and Theology: From Le Fanu to by Zoe Lehmann Imfeld

By Zoe Lehmann Imfeld

This publication argues that theology is valuable to an figuring out of the literary ghost story. Victorian ghost tales have characteristically been learn within the context of agnosticism – as tales which display a society being affected by Christian orthodoxy in a brand new ‘Enlightened’ global. This publication, even though, makes use of theological principles from St Augustine via to trendy theologians to spot a theological trip taken through the protagonists of such tales, and charts each one degree of this trip throughout the brief tales it examines. It additionally proposes a concept of reader participation which creates an imaginary area within which glossy epistemology is suspended. The ebook reports the paintings of 4 significant authors of the supernatural story: Arthur Machen, M.R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Henry James.

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