God & the Gothic: Religion, Romance and Reality in the English Literary Tradition

ISBN-13: 9780198824466 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 368 str.

Alison Milbank

Opis

Alison Milbank provides a complete reimagining of the Gothic literary canon to examine its engagement with theological ideas, tracing its origins to the apocalyptic critique of the Reformation female martyrs, and to the Dissolution of the monasteries, now seen as usurping authorities.

Recenzje

Milbank's work is valuable not just in that it should prompt in the literary academy a chastised return to the Gothic with a more religiously attuned critical sense, but also in that she raises important questions about what happens to faith when it is shorn of its imagination, its instinct for the liminal and its arcane ritual, and made to conform to too much rational dissection, reasonable practice and 'scientific' moderation.

O autorze

Alison Milbank is Associate Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Nottingham. She was John Rylands Research Fellow at the University of Manchester and after a temporary position at Cambridge, taught for five years at the University of Virginia. She has taught at Nottingham since 2004, and is also Priest Vicar and Canon Theologian at Southwell Minster. She has published widely on the Gothic, also publishes on Anglican ecclesiology and theology. Her publications include Daughters of the House: Modes of the Gothic in Victorian Fiction (1992) and Preaching Radical and Orthodox (co-edited with John Hughes and Arabella Milbank; 2017).