Chesterton and Evil / / Mark Knight.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Knight, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Religion and Literature
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823295272; 9783111189604; 9783110707298
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823295272
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mark Knight.

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.