Horror and religion: new literary approaches to theology, race and sexuality
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. 'Headlong into an Immense Abyss': Horror and Calvinism in Scotland and the United States -- Neil Syme2. The Blood is the Life: An Exploration of the Vampire's Jewish Shadow -- Mary Going3. Decadent Horror Fiction and Fin-de-Siècle...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cardiff
University of Wales Press
[2019]
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Series/Journal: | Horror studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
English language
/ Literature
/ Horror
/ Religion (Motif)
B Religion (Motif) / Weird fiction / History 1600-2015 |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Horror in literature B Religion in literature B Race in literature B Sex in literature B Religious Literature |
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Erscheint auch als: Horror and religion. - Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2019]. - 1786834405 |
| Summary: | Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. 'Headlong into an Immense Abyss': Horror and Calvinism in Scotland and the United States -- Neil Syme2. The Blood is the Life: An Exploration of the Vampire's Jewish Shadow -- Mary Going3. Decadent Horror Fiction and Fin-de-Siècle Neo-Thomism -- Zoë Lehmann Imfeld4. 'Let the Queer One in': The Performance of the Holy, Innocent and Monstrous Body in Vampire Fiction -- Rachel Mann5. More or Less Human, or Less is More Humane?: Monsters, Cyborgs and Technological (Ex)tensions of Edenic Bodies -- Scott Midson6. Horror and the Death of God -- Simon Marsden7. Aboriginal Ghosts, Sacred Cannibals and the Pagan Christ: Consuming the Past as Salvation in Wilson Harris's Jonestown -- Eleanor Beal8. Reconfiguring Gothic Anti-Catholicism: Faith and Folk-Horror in the Work of Andrew Michael Hurley -- Jonathan Greenaway9. 'Deliver Us from Evil': David Mitchell, Repetition and Redemption -- Andrew TateBibliography Index Horror and Religion is an edited collection of essays offering structured discussions of spiritual and theological conflicts in Horror, from the late-sixteenth to the twenty-first century |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1786834413 |