Chesterton and Evil (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780823223091)

In the engaging Chesterton and Evil, Mark Knight offers a compelling analysis of the increasingly marginalized, but undoubtedly influential Gilbert Keith Chesterton and his late 19th and early 20th century fiction. In his Autobiography Chesterton observed: "Perhaps, when I eventually emerged as a sort of theorist, and was described as an Optimist, it was because I was one of the few people in that world of diabolism who really believed in devils." Arguing that a serious analysis of the nature of evil is at the center of his fiction, Chesterton and Evil offers an exciting, new interdisciplinary reading of Chesterton's work, and provides a means of locating it among important theological and cultural concerns of his age.

Author: Mark Knight
ISBN-10: 0823223094
ISBN-13: 9780823223091
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2004
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.94h x 5.42w x 0.65d