Malcolm Malcolmson's Bible: Rival Epistemologies in Bram Stoker's “The Judge's House”
“The Judge's House,” one of Dracula author Bram Stoker's best-known works of short fiction, is a horror tale in which Malcolm Malcolmson, a young college student, rents a haunted house to study for his mathematical tripos exams. He finds himself unable to combat the spirit of a dead, malev...
Published in: | Christianity & literature |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2017]
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Christianity & literature
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RelBib Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture TJ Modern history |
Further subjects: | B
crisis of faith
B Geometry B FAITH (Christianity) B STOKER, Bram, 1847-1912 B Epistemology B Bram Stoker B Religion B JUDGE'S House, The (Short story) B theory of knowledge |
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Summary: | “The Judge's House,” one of Dracula author Bram Stoker's best-known works of short fiction, is a horror tale in which Malcolm Malcolmson, a young college student, rents a haunted house to study for his mathematical tripos exams. He finds himself unable to combat the spirit of a dead, malevolent judge, embodied in the form of a rat. Stoker uses this story as a way of dramatizing the inefficacy of pure reason—symbolized in Malcolmson's mathematical studies—as a foundation for epistemology. Instead, the Christian faith—represented by Malcolmson's ancestral Bible—provides him the resources to ward off a distinctly supernatural evil, though he tragically fails to avail himself of this resource. |
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ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0148333116636985 |