The Supernatural and English Fiction
by Cavaliero, GlenFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1995-04-13
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
From Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto to Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor , the supernatural has been a recurring theme in English fiction. This book is the first ever to describe and discuss all the principal English writers who have handled the subject, including Ann Radcliffe, M. R. James, Rudyard Kipling, John Cowper Powys, James Hogg, Henry James, William Golding, Iris Murdoch, and Muriel Spark. Cavaliero not only analyzes the senses in which the supernatural may be understood, but also relates them to different kinds of fiction, such as the Gothic novel, the occultist romance, the ghost story, novels of paranormal psychology, nature mysticism, and late twentieth-century allegory and fable.
Author Biography
Glen Cavaliero is a Fellow Commoner of St Catharine's College and a member of the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge.
Table of Contents
| The Joker in the Pack | p. 1 |
| Natural and Supernatural: Wuthering Heights | p. 1 |
| Literary Theory and the Supernatural | p. 8 |
| Mystery and the Supernatural | p. 14 |
| Mystery and the Writing of Fiction | p. 19 |
| An Iconography of Fear | p. 23 |
| Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe | p. 24 |
| The Monk and Melmoth the Wanderer | p. 27 |
| Victorian Gothic: Sheridan Le Fanu | p. 33 |
| Dracula and The Beetle | p. 45 |
| M. R. James and the English Ghost Story | p. 51 |
| Watchers on the Threshold | p. 57 |
| Frankenstein | p. 58 |
| Edward Bulwer-Lytton | p. 63 |
| Fin de Siecle: Arthur Machen | p. 69 |
| Algernon Blackwood and David Lindsay | p. 79 |
| Travelling in Space-Time | p. 86 |
| An Insinuation of Doctrine | p. 91 |
| George MacDonald | p. 93 |
| Four Christian Apologists | p. 101 |
| Charles Williams | p. 107 |
| Twilight Territories | p. 116 |
| Rudyard Kipling | p. 117 |
| Walter de la Mare | p. 124 |
| Numinous Landscapes | p. 133 |
| The Elusiveness of Pan | p. 135 |
| Countries of the Mind | p. 141 |
| John Cowper Powys | p. 146 |
| The Enemy Within | p. 158 |
| James Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson | p. 159 |
| Henry James | p. 163 |
| Elizabeth Bowen | p. 170 |
| Phyllis Paul | p. 173 |
| God-Games | p. 182 |
| Supernaturalists at Play | p. 183 |
| William Golding | p. 189 |
| Iris Murdoch | p. 195 |
| Muriel Spark | p. 202 |
| Reversions to Type | p. 211 |
| The Loss of Paradise | p. 212 |
| The Ageing of Innocence | p. 215 |
| Below the Surfaces | p. 221 |
| The Earthing of the Supernatural | p. 229 |
| Encountering the Supernatural | p. 229 |
| The Refutation of Single Vision | p. 234 |
| The Relativity of Absolutes | p. 238 |
| Naturalism Transfigured | p. 241 |
| Epilogue: An Abolishing of Idols | p. 244 |
| Notes | p. 251 |
| Bibliography | p. 262 |
| Index | p. 267 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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