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The Victorian Ghost Story and Theology : From Le Fanu to James by Zoë Lehmann Imfeld is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Victorian Ghost Story and Theology : From Le Fanu to James about?
This book argues that theology is central to an understanding of the literary ghost story. Victorian ghost stories have traditionally been read in the context of agnosticism – as stories which reveal a society struggling with Christian orthodoxy in a new ‘Enlightened’ world. This book, however, uses theological ideas from St Augustine through to modern theologians to identify a theological journey taken by the protagonists of such stories, and charts each stage of this journey through the short
Who reads The Victorian Ghost Story and Theology : From Le Fanu to James?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Zoë Lehmann Imfeld
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783319302195
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25