Chesterton and evil / Mark Knight.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knight, Mark, 1972-

Series:

Studies in religion and literature (Fordham University Press) ; no. 7.

Studies in religion and literature series, 1096-6692 ; no. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936--Religion.

Chesterton, G. K.

Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936.

Christianity and literature--England--History--20th century.

Christianity and literature.

Good and evil--History of doctrines.

Good and evil.

Religion.

England.

History.

Good and evil--History of doctrines--20th century.

Good and evil in literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 172 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2004.

Summary:

In the engaging Chesterton and Evil, Mark Knight offers a compelling analysis of the increasingly marginalized, but undoubtedly influential Gilbert Keith Chesterton and his late 19th and early 20th century fiction. In his Autobiography Chesterton observed: "Perhaps, when I eventually emerged as a sort of theorist, and was described as an Optimist, it was because I was one of the few people in that world of diabolism who really believed in devils." Arguing that a serious analysis of the nature of evil is at the center of his fiction, Chesterton and Evil offers an exciting, new interdisciplinary reading of Chesterton's work, and provides a means of locating it among important theological and cultural concerns of his age.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-166) and index.

ISBN:

0823223094

OCLC:

53330866