TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lehmann Imfeld,Zoe
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - The Victorian Ghost Story and Theology: From Le Fanu to James 
SN  - 9783319302195(ebook:PDF)
U1  - 809.034 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing (Imprint)
KW  - Literature, Modern-19th century
KW  - British literature
KW  - America-Literatures
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30219-5
ER  -