Chesterton and Evil

In the engaging Chesterton and Evil, Mark Knight offers a compelling analysis of the increasingly marginalized, but undoubtedly influential Gilbert Keith Chesterton and his late 19th and early 20th century fiction. In his Autobiography Chesterton observed: "Perhaps, when I eventually emerged as a sort of theorist, and was described as an Optimist, it was because I was one of the few people in that world of diabolism who really believed in devils." Arguing that a serious analysis of the nature of evil is at the center of his fiction, Chesterton and Evil offers an exciting, new interdisciplinary reading of Chesterton's work, and provides a means of locating it among important theological and cultural concerns of his age.

Author: Mark Knight
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 03/01/2004
Pages: 340
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.94h x 5.42w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780823223091

About the Author
Mark Knight is a Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University of Surrey. He has published a range of work on nineteenth and early-twentieth fiction, including articles in English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Literature and Theology, Christianity and Literature, Wilkie Collins Society Journal, and Dickens Studies Annual.