Horror Fiction in the Protestant Tradition
Victor Sage(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 5. September 1988
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-333-36918-0 (ISBN)
Description
An attempt to analyze in detail the cultural determinants of a literary form, relocating them for a modern reader in certain preoccupations common to theology and law throughout the period from the Glorious Revolution to the First World War and beyond. The ultimate subject of this study is the deposit of cultural expectations available, often unconsciously, to readers and writers of horror fiction. It is also aimed for use in departments of film studies as well as literature. The author attempts to isolate the means by which the English Protestant tradition preserves and transmits horror. Treating the process as a recurrent feature of the politics of belief, he unearths evidence concerning the historical nature of "authority", "truth" and "objectivity" in Anglo-Saxon culture.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
12pp illustrations, notes, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
460 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-36918-0 (9780333369180)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Dark house - theology and the picturesque; the unwritten tradition - horror and the rhetoric of anti-Catholicism; criminals and Christians - the paradox of the internalized conscience; commodious labyrinths - testimony and fictional credibility; strange cases - horror fiction as legal process.