Review: Modern Literature and the Question of Belief
byRoger Lundin. Beginning With the Word: Modern Literature and the Question of Belief. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2014, 272 pp., £14.99/$24.99 pbk. In an…
Roger Lundin. Beginning With the Word: Modern Literature and the Question of Belief. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2014, 272 pp., £14.99/$24.99 pbk. In an…
In the history of the development of the horror novel certain periods become associated with certain social and cultural anxieties. The classic example is…
The shepherd’s brow, fronting forked lightning, owns The horror and the havoc and the glory Of it…. —G. M. Hopkins, ‘The Shepherd’s Brow,’ 1918….
It is a commonly held opinion that Thomas Hardy, the prolific Victorian poet and novelist, is a pessimist. This perspective is documented well in a…
The previous two pieces in this series have attempted to use the figure of the monster to draw out some of the flaws and…
In my previous post, I introduced the epistemic shifts occurring across the theological, political and philosophical landscape of the early 1800s which gave rise…
“Dark Faith: New Essays on Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away,” Edited by Susan Srigley, University of Notre Dame Press, 2012, 232 pps…..