Review: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain
Melanie Keefe. Science in Wonderland: The Scientific Fairy Tales of Victorian Britain. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015. vi+ 232pp. £16.99/$24.99 hardcover. In…
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Review: Reading in the Wilderness
Jessica Brantley, Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp….
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Reading in the Dark
“Why is it that you like to read such dark stories?” As a literature professor at a small evangelical Christian college, I often get…
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The Saints we Make: David Foster Wallace on the Big Screen
Theologian Benjamin Myers argues that modern western culture, like our cultural forbearers, remains rooted in sainthood. Instead of wearing habits and living in monasteries,…
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Shining Light on Suffering: A Theology of Scars
It is often argued that we are what we read. According to a study conducted by a professor at Dartmouth, the books we read…
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The Canary in the Coal Mine? Thoughts on Allegory
Teaching allegory is always a bit of an uphill battle. I used to think that allegory was difficult for students because they simply weren’t…
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Expressive Individualism: The Cult of the Artist as Genius and Milton’s Lucifer
Our culture is, whether we know it or not, a Romantic culture, indeed, a revolutionary culture, that is, one predicated on the rejection of…
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Review: Modern Literature and the Question of Belief
Roger Lundin. Beginning With the Word: Modern Literature and the Question of Belief. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2014, 272 pp., £14.99/$24.99 pbk. In an…
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Theology of the Body in Modern Horror
In the history of the development of the horror novel certain periods become associated with certain social and cultural anxieties. The classic example is…
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