Jonathan Greenaway is Researcher in Theology and Horror at the University of Chester, UK.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Gothic [and religion] and theology1. Monstrosity and the problem of evil: A theologico-literary understanding of personhood in Frankenstein and Paradise Lost2. 'Sinners in the hands of an angry God': Gothic revelation and monstrous theology in the Gothic’s Calvinist legacy3. Gothic writing and political theology: Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre as theological texts4. 'Through a glass darkly': Reading the Victorian ghost story theologically 5. The limitations of materialism: Fin-de-siècle Gothic, sin and subjectivity and the insufficiency of degenerationConclusion: Through the Gothic castle, back to theologyBibliographyIndex

Jonathan Greenaway’s Theology, Horror and Fiction: A Reading of the Gothic Nineteenth Century offers a critically important and intellectually nuanced perspective into the often neglected relationship between Gothic literature and theology, within a Christian framework.

Jonathan Greenaway is Researcher in Theology and Horror at the University of Chester, UK.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Gothic [and religion] and theology1. Monstrosity and the problem of evil: A theologico-literary understanding of personhood in Frankenstein and Paradise Lost2. 'Sinners in the hands of an angry God': Gothic revelation and monstrous theology in the Gothic’s Calvinist legacy3. Gothic writing and political theology: Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre as theological texts4. 'Through a glass darkly': Reading the Victorian ghost story theologically 5. The limitations of materialism: Fin-de-siècle Gothic, sin and subjectivity and the insufficiency of degenerationConclusion: Through the Gothic castle, back to theologyBibliographyIndex

Jonathan Greenaway’s Theology, Horror and Fiction: A Reading of the Gothic Nineteenth Century offers a critically important and intellectually nuanced perspective into the often neglected relationship between Gothic literature and theology, within a Christian framework.

Jonathan Greenaway is Researcher in Theology and Horror at the University of Chester, UK.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Gothic [and religion] and theology1. Monstrosity and the problem of evil: A theologico-literary understanding of personhood in Frankenstein and Paradise Lost2. 'Sinners in the hands of an angry God': Gothic revelation and monstrous theology in the Gothic’s Calvinist legacy3. Gothic writing and political theology: Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre as theological texts4. 'Through a glass darkly': Reading the Victorian ghost story theologically 5. The limitations of materialism: Fin-de-siècle Gothic, sin and subjectivity and the insufficiency of degenerationConclusion: Through the Gothic castle, back to theologyBibliographyIndex

Jonathan Greenaway’s Theology, Horror and Fiction: A Reading of the Gothic Nineteenth Century offers a critically important and intellectually nuanced perspective into the often neglected relationship between Gothic literature and theology, within a Christian framework.