Chesterton and Evil / Mark Knight.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knight, Mark, Author.

Series:

Studies in Religion and Literature

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1 Introduction

2 The 1890s, Detective Fiction, and the Nature of Evil

3 Creation and the Grotesque

4 Nothingness, Solipsism, and the Grotesque

5 CONFESSION, THE CHURCH, AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL

WORKS CITED

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

0-8232-9527-3