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Good and evil / editor, Margaret S�onser Breen, University of Connecticut.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical insights.
- Critical insights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Good and evil in literature.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 294 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, 2013.
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Edited by Margaret Breen, Professor of English and Associate Department Head at University of Connecticut, Storrs, this volume in the Critical Insights series presents a variety of new essays on the perennial theme. For readers who are studying it for the first time, a four essays survey the critical conversation regarding the theme, explore its cultural and historical contexts, and offer close and comparative readings of key texts in the genre. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the theme can then move on to other essays that explore it in depth through a variety of critical approaches. Works discussed include King Lear; Paradise Lost; Maus; The Scarlet Letter; Jane Eyre; The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Farming of Bones; Train to Pakistan; Harry Potter and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- Contents:
- On good and evil / Margaret Sönser Breen
- Critical contexts. Good and evil in the modern critical tradition / Mena Mitrano ; Good and evil: inclusion and exclusion in life and literature / Sherrie Olson ; World without evil? Faust's fortunes through the centuries / Robert Deam Tobin ; Decadence and Dorian Gray: who's afraid of Oscar Wilde? / Frederick S. Roden
- Critical readings. Bonds, needs, and morals in King Lear / Gregory Kneidel ; John Milton's Paradise lost and the problem of evil / Mitchell M. Harris ; Driven by demons: "The rime of the ancient mariner" / Mark Kipperman ; The inadequacy of closure in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre; or, Why "Reader, I married him" is one of the most disappointing sentences in Victorian literature / Katie R. Peel ; Hawthorne's pearl: the origins of good and evil in The scarlet letter / Karen J. Renner ; "The accurst, the tainted, and the innocent": The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the fragmentation of personality in late Victorian and Edwardian Scottish fiction / Tom Hubbard ; From mice to Mickey to Maus: the metaphor of evil and its metamorphosis in the Holocaust / Pnina Rosenberg ; Understanding communal violence: Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan / Patrick Colm Hogan ; Unfinished evil and benevolent community in Edwidge Danticat's The farming of bones / Katharine Capshaw Smith ; Revisiting the Gothic / Erin Hollis ; The touch of evil and the triumph of love in Harry Potter / Vera J. Camden
- Resources. Additional works on good and evil ; Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781283803809
- 1283803801
- 9781429837842
- 1429837845
- OCLC:
- 816637724
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