| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 199 pages) |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; AFTER SATAN; THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF SATAN; SATAN'S POSTERITY; DOMESTICATING THE DEVIL; MEDIATING EVIL; DEVILISH AND DIVINE ECONOMIES IN (AND AFTER) PARADISE LOST; FUNNY AS HELL, OR HUMBABA TO THE RESCUE; GODLY REFLECTIONS; THE DEVIL IN THE PRINTING PRESS; SATAN IN THE NEW WORLD; POE'S POOR DEVILS; THE DEVIL DOESN'T ONLY WEAR PRADA; BECKETT'S EVE; SATAN STRIKES AGAIN; CONTRIBUTORS |
| Summary |
This volume is the result of a collective desire to pay homage to Neil Forsyth, whose work has significantly contributed to scholarship on Satan. This volume is "after" Satan in more ways than one, tracing the afterlife of both the satanic figure in literature and of Neil Forsyth's contribution to the field, particularly in his major books The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth (Princeton University Press, 1987, revised 1990) and The Satanic Epic (Princeton University Press, 2003). The essa .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Devil in literature.
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Literature -- History and criticism
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Literature & literary studies.
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Literary studies: general.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Devil in literature
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Literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stirling, Kirsten
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Dutheil de la Rochère, Martine Hennard
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Forsyth, Neil, 1944-
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| ISBN |
9781443823593 |
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1443823597 |
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