Horror and religion : new literary approaches to theology, race and sexuality / edited by Eleanor Beal and Jonathan Greenaway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beal, Eleanor

Beal, Eleanor, author.

Contributor:

Greenaway, Jonathan, editor.

Series:

Horror studies.

Horror studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 222 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2019]

Summary:

Horror and Religion is an edited collection of essays offering structured discussions of spiritual and theological conflicts in Horror fiction from the late-sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Contributors explore the various ways that horror and religion have interacted over themes of race and sexuality; the texts under discussion chart the way in which the religious imagination has been deployed over the course of Horror fiction's development, from a Gothic mode based in theological polemics to a more distinct genre in the twenty-first century that explores the afterlife of religion. Horror and Religion focuses on the Horror genre and its characteristics of the body, sexuality, trauma and race, and the essays explore how Horror fiction has shifted emphasis from anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism to incorporate less understood historical and theological issues, such as the 'Death of God' and the spiritual destabilisation of the secular. By confronting spiritual conflicts in Horror fiction, this volume offers new perspectives on what we traditionally perceive as horrifying.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781786834423

1786834421