The supernatural and English fiction / Glen Cavaliero

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; x, 273 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-266) and index. ContentsThe joker in the pack. Natural and supernatural : Wuthering Heights -- Literary theory and the supernatural -- Mystery and the supernatural -- Mystery and the writing of fiction -- An iconography of fear. Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe -- The monk and Melmoth the wanderer -- Victorian Gothic : Sheridan Le Fanu -- Dracula and The beetle -- M.R. James and the English ghost story -- Watchers on the threshold. Frankenstein -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton -- Fin de siècle : Arthur Machen -- Algernon Blackwood and David Lindsay -- Travelling in space-time -- An insinuation of doctrine. George MacDonald -- Four Christian apologists -- Charles Williams -- Twilight territories. Rudyard Kipling -- Walter de la Mare -- Numinous landscapes. The elusiveness of Pan -- Countries of the mind -- John Cowper Powys -- The enemy within. James Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson -- Henry James -- Elizabeth Bowen -- Phyllis Paul -- God-games. Supernaturalists at play -- William Golding -- Iris Murdoch -- Muriel Spark -- Reversions to type. The loss of paradise -- The ageing of innocence -- Below the surfaces -- The earthing of the supernatural. Encountering the supernatural -- The refutation of single vision -- The relativity of absolutes -- Naturalism transfigured -- Epilogue : An abolishing of idols. Subjects; English fiction History and criticism. Supernatural in literature. Fantasy fiction, English History and criticism. Horror tales, English History and criticism. Gothic revival (Literature) Great Britain. English fiction Themes, motives. Gothic fiction (Literary genre) Great Britain. Surnaturel dans la littérature. Roman fantastique anglais Histoire et critique. Récits d'horreur anglais Histoire et critique. Roman gothique Grande-Bretagne. Roman anglais Histoire et critique. Littérature frénétique Grande-Bretagne. English fiction. Fantasy fiction, English. Gothic revival (Literature). Horror tales, English.