‘Like a Child’: The Virtues of Childhood in The Idiot
In a novel tasked with depicting the ‘positively good man’, it is significant that the majority of characters who are characterized as ‘good’ in…
Austin is an MLitt student at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts in St. Andrews. Before coming to St. Andrews, Austin studied Biblical Texts and Preaching at Lubbock Christian University in Lubbock, Texas. His current research is on the theme of creation stewardship in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, and how the attitudes of fictional characters might impact the reader’s imagination and actual stance toward nature.
In a novel tasked with depicting the ‘positively good man’, it is significant that the majority of characters who are characterized as ‘good’ in…