Includes bibliographical references (pages 180 - 190) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Gothic and theology -- Monstrosity and the problem of evil: A theologico-literary understanding of personhood in Frankenstein and Paradise Lost -- 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God': Gothic revelation and monstrous theology in the Gothic's Calvinist legacy -- Gothic writing and political theology: Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre as theological texts -- 'Through a Glass Darkly': Reading the Victorian ghost story theologically -- The limitations of materialism: Fin-de-siècle Gothic, sin and subjectivity and the insufficiency of degeneration -- Conclusion: Through the Gothic castle, back to theology.
Summary:
"This theological reading of canonical texts of the 19th-century Gothic posits the religious themes of the Gothic as essential to understanding the form as a whole"-- Provided by publisher.
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