| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 294 pages). |
| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
On good and evil / Margaret Sönser Breen -- Critical contexts. Good and evil in the modern critical tradition / Mena Mitrano -- Good and evil: inclusion and exclusion in life and literature / Sherrie Olson -- World without evil? Faust's fortunes through the centuries / Robert Deam Tobin -- Decadence and Dorian Gray: who's afraid of Oscar Wilde? / Frederick S. Roden -- Critical readings. Bonds, needs, and morals in King Lear / Gregory Kneidel -- John Milton's Paradise lost and the problem of evil / Mitchell M. Harris -- Driven by demons: "The rime of the ancient mariner" / Mark Kipperman -- The inadequacy of closure in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre; or, Why "Reader, I married him" is one of the most disappointing sentences in Victorian literature / Katie R. Peel -- Hawthorne's pearl: the origins of good and evil in The scarlet letter / Karen J. Renner -- "The accurst, the tainted, and the innocent": The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the fragmentation of personality in late Victorian and Edwardian Scottish fiction / Tom Hubbard -- From mice to Mickey to Maus: the metaphor of evil and its metamorphosis in the Holocaust / Pnina Rosenberg -- Understanding communal violence: Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan / Patrick Colm Hogan -- Unfinished evil and benevolent community in Edwidge Danticat's The farming of bones / Katharine Capshaw Smith -- Revisiting the Gothic / Erin Hollis -- The touch of evil and the triumph of love in Harry Potter / Vera J. Camden. |
| Summary |
This book provides readers with essays that present an introduction to the perennial theme of good and evil in literature, and the critical discussions that surround it. A bibliography of critical sources for readers seeking to study this timeless theme in greater depth is also included. |
| Subject |
Good and evil in literature.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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English literature. (OCoLC)fst00911989
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Good and evil in literature. (OCoLC)fst00944908
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Breen, Margaret Sönser.
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| Cover Title |
Good & evil |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Good and evil. Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, 2013 9781429837361 (DLC) 2012018999 (OCoLC)777601667 |
| ISBN |
9781429837842 (electronic bk.) |
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1429837845 (electronic bk.) |
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