The Victorian Ghost Story and Theology From Le Fanu to James /

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Main Author: Lehmann Imfeld, Zoe (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:X, 188 p. 1 illus. in color.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30219-5
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505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a 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. 
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