| Description |
1 online resource (x, 222 pages) |
| Series |
Horror studies |
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Horror studies.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. 'Headlong into an Immense Abyss': Horror and Calvinism in Scotland and the United States -- Neil Syme2. The Blood is the Life: An Exploration of the Vampire's Jewish Shadow -- Mary Going3. Decadent Horror Fiction and Fin-de-Siècle Neo-Thomism -- Zoë Lehmann Imfeld4. 'Let the Queer One in': The Performance of the Holy, Innocent and Monstrous Body in Vampire Fiction -- Rachel Mann5. More or Less Human, or Less is More Humane?: Monsters, Cyborgs and Technological (Ex)tensions of Edenic Bodies -- Scott Midson6. Horror and the Death of God -- Simon Marsden7. Aboriginal Ghosts, Sacred Cannibals and the Pagan Christ: Consuming the Past as Salvation in Wilson Harris's Jonestown -- Eleanor Beal8. Reconfiguring Gothic Anti-Catholicism: Faith and Folk-Horror in the Work of Andrew Michael Hurley -- Jonathan Greenaway9. 'Deliver Us from Evil': David Mitchell, Repetition and Redemption -- Andrew TateBibliography Index |
| Summary |
Horror and Religion is an edited collection of essays offering structured discussions of spiritual and theological conflicts in Horror, from the late-sixteenth to the twenty-first century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed January 4, 2021) |
| Subject |
Horror in literature.
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Religion in literature.
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Race in literature.
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Sex in literature.
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Religious literature.
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Sex in literature
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Religion in literature
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Race in literature
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Horror in literature
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Religious literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Beal, Eleanor, editor
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Greenaway, Jonathan, editor
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| ISBN |
9781786834416 |
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1786834413 |
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9781786834423 |
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1786834421 |
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9781786834430 |
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178683443X |
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