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.

The Supernatural and English Fiction

Literature & Fiction

Cavaliero, Glen

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

John Cowper Powys: novelist

Clarendon Press

The Rural Tradition In The English Novel 1900-1939

The rural tradition in the English novel, 1900-1939

Macmillan

A reading of E. M. Forster

First American Edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Charles Williams: Poet of Theology

William B. Eerdmans

Includes bibliography and index. Fine condition in a fine dust jacket.

Reading of E. M. Forster

History & Criticism

Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

The ancient people

Carcanet Press

Rowman and Littlefield

Out of Season

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Verulam Publishing Ltd

Charles Williams (1886-1945), the friend of T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien, was both a writer with many gifts and a religious thinker of an unusual kind. Poet, playwright, novelist, biographer, critic, and theologian, in each capacity he displayed a distinctive and highly imaginative cast of mind. Here, in the first full-length study to appear for over twenty years, Glen Cavaliero discusses Williams's work in its entirety and pays particular attention to the manner in which his theological ideas were shaped and furthered by his various literary achievements.Following a brief account of Williams's life, the author examines the early poems, the criticism, biographies and plays, the novels, the Arthurian poems, and the assessment of Charles Williams's literary and theological importance. The book also illuminates the relationship between religious belief and the scope and working of the poetic mind. The discussion of Williams's place in twentieth-century literary history as a writer of "fantasy literature, and of his unique gifts as a Christian apologist in an age of skepticism, ensures that this book will be of immense interest to literary critics and theologians alike.

Religion & Spirituality

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