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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian)
Longlisted for the 2022 International Gothic Association's Allan
Lloyd Smith Prize Surpassing scholarly discourse surrounding the
emergent secularism of the 19th century, Theology, Horror and
Fiction argues that the Victorian Gothic is a genre fascinated with
the immaterial. Through close readings of popular Gothic novels
across the 19th century – Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights,
Dracula and The Picture of Dorian Gray, among others – Jonathan
Greenaway demonstrates that to understand and read Gothic novels is
to be drawn into the discourses of theology. Despite the
differences in time, place and context that informed the writers of
these stories, the Gothic novel is irreducibly fascinated with
religious and theological ideas, and this angle has been often
overlooked in broader scholarly investigations into the
intersections between literature and religion. Combining historical
theological awareness with interventions into contemporary
theology, particularly around imaginative apologetics and theology
and the arts, Jonathan Greenaway offers the beginnings of a modern
theology of the Gothic.
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Authenticity
(Hardcover)
Anita M Hessenauer
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