Horror and Religion

New Literary Approaches to Theology, Race and Sexuality

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

AvEleanor Beal,Jonathan Greenaway,Eleanor Beal,Jon Greenaway

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Horror and Religion is an edited collection of essays offering structured discussions of spiritual and theological conflicts in Horror fiction from the late-sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Contributors explore the various ways that horror and religion have interacted over themes of race and sexuality; the texts under discussion chart the way in which the religious imagination has been deployed over the course of Horror fiction’s development, from a Gothic mode based in theological polemics to a more distinct genre in the twenty-first century that explores the afterlife of religion. Horror and Religion focuses on the Horror genre and its characteristics of the body, sexuality, trauma and race, and the essays explore how Horror fiction has shifted emphasis from anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism to incorporate less understood historical and theological issues, such as the ‘Death of God’ and the spiritual destabilisation of the secular. By confronting spiritual conflicts in Horror fiction, this volume offers new perspectives on what we traditionally perceive as horrifying.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-07-15
Mått138 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt288 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieHorror Studies
Antal sidor224
FörlagUniversity of Wales Press
ISBN9781786834409

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Eleanor Beal is Lecturer in Film and Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is on the editorial board of the Dark Arts Journal, and is author of the monograph Post-Secular Gothic: Disenchantment and Re-enchantment in Contemporary Gothic Fictions. Jonathon Greenaway is Lecturer in Film and Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is co-founder and editor of the Dark Arts Journal, and is author of the monograph Theology, Horror, and Fiction: A Reading of the Gothic Nineteenth Century.

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