Horror and religion : new literary approaches to theology, race and sexuality /

Horror and religion : new literary approaches to theology, race and sexuality / edited by Eleanor Beal and Jonathan Greenaway. - Cardiff : University of Wales Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (x, 222 pages) - Horror studies .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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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Horror in literature.
Religion in literature.
Race in literature.
Sex in literature.
Religious literature.


Electronic Books.

PN56 / .H677 2019