Theology, Horror and Fiction: A Reading of the Gothic Nineteenth Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781501351785)

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, Theology, Horror and Fiction offers the beginnings of a modern theology of the Gothic.

Author: Jonathan Greenaway
ISBN-10: 1501351788
ISBN-13: 9781501351785
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/14/2021
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d