God and the Gothic Religion, Romance, and Reality in the English Literary Tradition
- Oxford Oxford University Press 2018
- 354p
includes index and biblioraphy
1. Whig Gothic in the Long Reformation Cain`s Castles:The Emergence of Protestant gothic in the Reformation ................13 Bare, Ruined Quires : Gothic Nostalgia and the Reformation .....40 The Secret of Divine providence: Whig Gothic and the Grotesque in Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, and Matthew Lewis ........62 Beyond the Awful veil: Melancholic Theology and the In-Between in Ann Radcliffe .........86 Paradoxes of the Heart : Religious Anthropology in the Colonial Gothic of Charles Brockden Brown ................111 Hideous progeny: Mary Shelley`s dantesque Theology of Creation ..........123 2. Duality and Mediation in Scottish Gothic Truly two : Calvinist anthropology and the Positive gothic double from Christopher marlowe to John Buchan ..........151 Black Books and Brownies : Narrating the Reformation in Walter Scott and James Hogg..........176 3. The Ambivalence of Blood in Irish Gothic Mimetic Contagion : Charles Maturian and the Theology of Sacrifice ..........189 In a Glass Darkly? Narrating death and the Afterlife in J. Sheridan Le Fanu ...........204 Finding a Via Media : Bram Stoker and Mediation ....225 4. Later gothic : Re-enchanting the material Supernatural Naturalism : Margaret Oliphant , Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charlotte and Emily Bronte ...........247 Holy Terrors: The Mystical Gothic of Arthur Machem, Evelyn Underhill , and Charles Williams ............269 Ecclesiastical Gothic : J. Meade Falkner and M. R James ...............286