00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217613924666 Buklod 20211209125518.0 a r |||| u| ta 211209s2018 xx d r |||| u| 9780198824466 (hbk.) (iLib)UPD-00533071812 YDX DCAL rda eng DMLUC PR 830 T3 M55 2018 Milbank, Alison 1954- author. God and the Gothic religion, romance, and reality in the English literary tradition Alison Milbank. First Edition. Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press 2018. x, 354 pages 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-334) and index. Whig Gothic in the Long Reformation -- Duality and mediation in Scottish Gothic -- The ambivalence of blood in Irish Gothic -- Later Gothic: re-enchanting the material. "God and the Gothic: Romance and Reality in the English Literary Tradition provides a complete reimagining of the Gothic literary canon to examine its engagement with theological ideas, tracing its origins to the apocalyptic critique of the Reformation female martyrs, and to the Dissolution of the Monasteries, now seen as usurption of power by the authorities. A double gesture of repudiation and regret is evident in the consequent search for political, aesthetic, and religious mediation, which characterizes the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution and Whig Providential discourse. Part I interprets eighteenth-century Gothic novels in terms of this Whig debate about the true heir, culminating in Ann Radcliffe's melancholic theology which uses distance and loss to enable a new mediation. Part II traces the origins of the doppelgèanger in Calvinist anthropology and establishes that its employment by a range of Scottish writers offers a productive mode of subjectivity, necessary in a culture equally concerned with historical continuity. In Part III, Irish Gothic is shown to be seeking ways to mediate between Catholic and Protestant identities through models of sacrifice and ecumenism, while in Part IV nineteenth-century Gothic is read as increasingly theological, responding to materialism by a project of re-enchantment. Ghost story writers assert the metaphysical priority of the supernatural to establish the material world. Arthur Machen and other Order of the Golden Dawn members explore the double and other Gothic tropes as modes of mystical ascent, while raising the physical to the spiritual through magical control, and the M.R. James circle restores the sacramental and psychical efficacy of objects"-- Provided by publisher. Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English History and criticism. Religion in literature. FO UPD DCAL PR 830 T3 M55 2018 Book