God & the Gothic
Religion, Romance, & Reality in the English Literary Tradition
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 October 2018
- ISBN 9780198824466
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages366 pages
- Size 242x162x25 mm
- Weight 704 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Alison Milbank provides a complete reimagining of the Gothic literary canon to examine its engagement with theological ideas, tracing its origins to the apocalyptic critique of the Reformation female martyrs, and to the Dissolution of the monasteries, now seen as usurping authorities.
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God and the Gothic: Romance and Reality in the English Literary Tradition provides a complete reimagining of the Gothic literary canon to examine its engagement with theological ideas, tracing its origins to the apocalyptic critique of the Reformation female martyrs, and to the Dissolution of the monasteries, now seen as usurping authorities. A double gesture of repudiation and regret is evident in the consequent search for political, aesthetic, and religious mediation, which characterizes the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution and Whig Providential discourse. Part one interprets eighteenth-century Gothic novels in terms of this Whig debate about the true heir, culminating in Ann Radcliffe's melancholic theology which uses distance and loss to enable a new mediation. Part two traces the origins of the doppelgänger in Calvinist anthropology and establishes that its employment by a range of Scottish writers offers a productive mode of subjectivity, necessary in a culture equally concerned with historical continuity. In part three, Irish Gothic is shown to be seeking ways to mediate between Catholic and Protestant identities through models of sacrifice and ecumenism, while in part four nineteenth-century Gothic is read as increasingly theological, responding to materialism by a project of re-enchantment. Ghost story writers assert the metaphysical priority of the supernatural to establish the material world. Arthur Machen and other Order of the Golden Dawn members explore the double and other Gothic tropes as modes of mystical ascent, while raising the physical to the spiritual through magical control, and the M. R. James circle restore the sacramental and psychical efficacy of objects.
Milbank's work is valuable not just in that it should prompt in the literary academy a chastised return to the Gothic with a more religiously attuned critical sense, but also in that she raises important questions about what happens to faith when it is shorn of its imagination, its instinct for the liminal and its arcane ritual, and made to conform to too much rational dissection, reasonable practice and 'scientific' moderation.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Whig Gothic in the Long Reformation
Cain's Castles: The Emergence of Protestant Gothic in the Reformation
Bare, Ruined Choirs: Gothic Nostalgia and the Reformation
The Secret of Divine Providence: Whig Gothic and the Grotesque in Horace Walpole, Clara Reeve, and Matthew Lewis
Beyond the Awful Veil: Melancholic Theology and the In-between in Ann Radcliffe
Paradoxes of the Heart: Religious Anthropology in Charles Brockden Brown
Hideous Progeny: Mary Shelley's Dantesque Theology of Creation
Part II: Duality and Mediation in Scottish Gothic
Truly Two: Calvinist Anthropology and the Double from Christopher Marlowe to John Buchan
Black books and Brownies: Narrating the Reformation in Walter Scott and James Hogg
Part III: The Ambivalence of Blood in Irish Gothic
Mimetic Contagion: Charles Maturin and the Theology of Sacrifice
In a Glass Darkly? Narrating Death and the Afterlife in Sheridan Le Fanu
Finding a Via Media: Bram Stoker and Mediation
Part IV: Later Gothic: Re-enchanting the Material
Supernatural Naturalism in Margaret Oliphant, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë
Holy Terrors: The Mystical Gothic of Arthur Machen, Evelyn Underhill, and Charles Williams
Ecclesiastical Gothic: J. Meade Falkner and M. R. James
Epilogue
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