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.)

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.

Table of 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