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  1. Romantic enchantment
    fantasy, theology and affect
    Author: Hopps, Gavin
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Paderborn
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781472532329
    Series: New directions in religion and literature
    Subjects: Romance fiction; Fantasy literature; Christian literature; Aesthetics in literature
    Scope: 1 volume
  2. Romantic enchantment. Fantasy, theology and affect
    Author: Hopps, Gavin
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London

    Despite the burgeoning popularity of fantasy fiction and the increasing recognition of its spiritual significance and subversive effects, criticism of Romantic literature has often dismissed elements of the fantastic in the work of such canonical... more

     

    Despite the burgeoning popularity of fantasy fiction and the increasing recognition of its spiritual significance and subversive effects, criticism of Romantic literature has often dismissed elements of the fantastic in the work of such canonical writers as Byron and Keats as matters of escapism, false-consciousness or wish-fulfilment. In Romantic Enchantment, Gavin Hopps challenges this view and offers an alternative 'post-nihilistic' reading of the fantastic gestures and transcendent aspirations of Romantic poetry. Drawing on the seminal reflections of George MacDonald, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien on fantasy as well as a range of theological writing on aesthetics, this interdisciplinary study provides a provocative riposte to materialist interpretations of Romantic writing

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781472532329; 1472532325
    Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature
    Scope: 192 p