| Description |
xiv, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-280) 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. |
| 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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| Added Author |
Breen, Margaret Sönser.
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| ISBN |
9781429837361 (hardcover) |
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1429837365 (hardcover) |
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9781429837842 (ebook) |
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1429837845 (ebook) |
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