The Victorian Ghost Story And Theology
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Author |
: Zoe Lehmann Imfeld |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 197 |
Release |
: 2016-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319302195 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319302191 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Victorian Ghost Story and Theology by : Zoe Lehmann Imfeld
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.
Author |
: Sheridan Le Fanu |
Publisher |
: Arcturus Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 2024-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781398840744 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1398840742 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Victorian Ghost Stories by : Sheridan Le Fanu
By flickering candlelight, these haunting tales were carefully penned by some of greatest writers of the Victorian era, including Sheridan Le Fanu, Catherine Crowe and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The Victorian era has been dubbed the "Golden Age of the Ghost Story", producing some of the most iconic and masterful ghost stories the genre has ever seen. In this exquisite collection, you will find 14 terrifying tales which have been haunting readers for more than a century. Be transported to cobwebbed crypts, creaking manor houses, and dusky moors, where peril lies just around the corner. Includes: • The Dream - Sheridan Le Fanu • The Italian's Story - Catherine Crowe • Eveline's Visitant - Mary Elizabeth Braddon • The Body Snatcher - Rudyard Kipling • And many more! Perfect for horror lovers, these classic ghost stories are sure to terrify and entertain in equal measure.
Author |
: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu |
Publisher |
: CreateSpace |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2014-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1501066099 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781501066092 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Best Victorian Ghost Stories by : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Ghostly coaches shuttling the mildewed cadavers of its ill-fated occupants; a young orphan being lured to a frosty death by a pale, little girl with a mangled shoulder; a man spends the night in a room with a fatal past; a restless ne'er-do-well recognizes his fiancee with her throat cut in a twilit vision; a beautiful woman is sold by her uncle to a corpse living beneath a church... These are the images that haunted their authors' brains and found their way into the Golden Age of the British ghost story... As industrial Britain steamed away from its feudal-agrarian past, a sense of self-deceit and insecurity - a lingering of violent potential and national shame - pervaded the collective unconscious of the world's preeminent empire. This psychological malaise manifested itself in the English ghost story, which saw its golden era in the Victorian Age. The unsettling works of Dickens, Gaskell, Blackwood, Hardy, Nesbit, Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Braddon, Broughton, Oliphant, Wells, and Le Fanu grace this brief homage to that unique literary era of elegance, mystique, and horror.
Author |
: Michael Cox |
Publisher |
: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 521 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192804471 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192804472 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories by : Michael Cox
Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.
Author |
: Mike Stocks |
Publisher |
: Usborne Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 124 |
Release |
: 2013-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781409569176 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1409569179 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Victorian Ghost Stories: Usborne Classics Retold by : Mike Stocks
Six spine-tingling stories dug up and dusted down for today's readers. Enter the terrifying world of Victorian ghouls and ghostly apparitions – if you dare.
Author |
: Montague Summers |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 1936 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1859581331 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781859581339 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Victorian Ghost Stories by : Montague Summers
Author |
: Richard Dalby |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:313334027 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Victorian Ghost Stories by : Richard Dalby
Author |
: J. Jeffrey Franklin |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 287 |
Release |
: 2018-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501715464 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501715461 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Spirit Matters by : J. Jeffrey Franklin
Orthodox Christianity, scientific materialism, and alternative religions -- The evolution of occult spirituality in Victorian England and the representative case of Edward Bulwer-Lytton -- Anthony Trollope's religion : the orthodox/heterodox boundary -- The influences of Buddhism and comparative religion on Matthew Arnold's theology -- Interpenetration of religion and national politics in Great Britain and Sri Lanka : William Knighton's Forest life in Ceylon -- Identity, genre, and religion in Anna Leonowens' The English governess at the Siamese court -- Ancient Egyptian religion in late-Victorian England -- The economics of immortality : the demi-immortal Oriental, Enlightenment vitalism, and political economy in Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Conclusion : from Victorian occultism to new age spiritualities
Author |
: Jonathan Greenaway |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 206 |
Release |
: 2020-12-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501351792 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501351796 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Theology, Horror and Fiction by : Jonathan Greenaway
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.
Author |
: J. Le Fanu |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2013-09-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0615886345 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780615886343 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Victorian Ghost Story by : J. Le Fanu
Ghostly coaches shuttling the mildewed cadavers of its ill-fated occupants; a young orphan being lured to a frosty death by a pale, little girl with a mangled shoulder; a man spends the night in a room with a fatal past; a restless ne'er-do-well recognizes his fiancee with her throat cut in a twilit vision; a beautiful woman is sold by her uncle to a corpse living beneath a church... These are the images that haunted their authors' brains and found their way into the Golden Age of the British ghost story... As industrial Britain steamed away from its feudal-agrarian past, a sense of self-deceit and insecurity - a lingering of violent potential and national shame - pervaded the collective unconscious of the world's preeminent empire. This psychological malaise manifested itself in the English ghost story, which saw its golden era in the Victorian Age. The unsettling works of Dickens, Gaskell, Blackwood, Hardy, Nesbit, Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Braddon, Broughton, Oliphant, Wells, and Le Fanu grace this brief homage to that unique literary era of elegance, mystique, and horror.