Awards

• Long-listed for Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize for Gothic Criticism 2022 (United States)

Overview

Longlisted for the 2022 International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Prize Surpassing scholarly discourse surrounding the emergent secularism of the 19th century, Theology, Horror and Fiction argues that the Victorian Gothic is a genre fascinated with the immaterial. Through close readings of popular Gothic novels across the 19th century – Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Dracula and The Picture of Dorian Gray, among others – Jonathan Greenaway demonstrates that to understand and read Gothic novels is to be drawn into the discourses of theology. Despite the differences in time, place and context that informed the writers of these stories, the Gothic novel is irreducibly fascinated with religious and theological ideas, and this angle has been often overlooked in broader scholarly investigations into the intersections between literature and religion. Combining historical theological awareness with interventions into contemporary theology, particularly around imaginative apologetics and theology and the arts, Jonathan Greenaway offers the beginnings of a modern theology of the Gothic.

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Brilliantly redressing the hitherto overlooked relationship between Gothic literature and theology, Greenaway's book offers a sensitive and fresh way into 19th-century imaginings of monstrosity, evil, spectrality and sin. More than a spotlight on cultural, political and psychological anxiety, Greenaway's Gothic is an access point to the inexplicable existence of the supernatural in works by Shelley, Hogg, the Brontes and Wilde. Theology, Horror and Fiction ultimately reveals God in dark and terrifying places wherein the ordinary is made strange by the religious and mystical as much as by the weird and mysterious. * Emma Mason, Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK, and author of Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith (2018) *

Author Information

Jonathan Greenaway is Researcher in Theology and Horror at the University of Chester, UK.

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