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The Victorian ghost story and theology : from Le Fanu to James / Zoë Lehmann Imfeld

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Imfeld, Zoë Lehmann
Published
Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint published by Springer Nature, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Physical Description
x, 188 pages ; 22 cm

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Rethinking the Victorian Ghost Story -- Rethinking Victorian Agnosticism -- Rethinking Victorian Society -- Reviving Theological Ghosts -- A Journey through the Stories of Machen, MRJ, he Fanu and Henry James -- 2.Haunted by the Ghost of God---Reading Theologically -- God as Ghostly: The Relegation and Return of Meta-Narrative -- Being as Ghostly: The Christian Meta-Narrative of the Ghost Story -- 3.`Strangely mistaking death for life': Arthur Machen -- Anglo-Catholicism and Arthur Machen's Sense of Mystery -- Machen's Thomist Anthropology -- `The White People' -- Man without Christ in `The Great God Pan' -- Aesthetic Nihilism in The Three Impostors -- Conclusion -- 4.`What is this that I have done?': M. R. James -- M. R. James, Anglican Dogma and the Moral Authority of Text -- MRJ's Theological Anthropology -- `Canon Alberto's Scrapbook' and `Count Magnus' -- `Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance' -- Conclusion -- 5.`These devils have made quite a saint of you': Sheridan Le Fanu -- Le Fanu and the Irish Protestant Establishment -- Le Fanu's Augustinian Journey---Doubling and Transformation -- Mimetic Crisis as Gothic Horror in `Spalatro' and `Borrhomeo the Astrologer' -- From Horror to Terror: Incomplete Resurrection in `The Haunted Baronet' -- Terror Brought to Actuality in `The Mysterious Lodger' and `The Familiar' -- Conclusion -- 6.`He's there from the moment he knows somebody else is': Haunted by Paralysis in the Stories of Henry James -- Henry James' Non-Theology -- Henry James and Teleology -- Becoming and Stasis in `The Beast in the Jungle' -- Aesthetic Creation in `The Altar of the Dead' -- Conclusion -- 7.Conclusion: `This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good' -- Return to the Gap -- Reader Doubling -- Response as Participation.
Summary
"This book argues that theology is central to an understanding of the literary ghost story, [using] theological ideas from St Augustine through to modern theologians to identify a theological journey taken by the protagonists of such stories .... The book studies the work of four major authors of the supernatural tale: Arthur Machen, M.R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Henry James."--Page 4 of cover.
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ISBN
9783319302188
3319302183
9783319302195
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-182) and index.
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