The Literature of Hell

Essays considering the representation and perception of hell in a variety of texts.

List of contents

Introduction,
Margaret Kean

PART I: Cum Timor et Tremore: Landscapes for Hell

Folk Horror: Hell and the Land in Old English Homilies for Rogationtide,
Helen Appleton

Pandæmonium as Parallax: Metropolitan Underworlds and Anarchist Clubs in Nineteenth-Century London and its Literature,
Charlotte Jones

Hell's Museum, Singapore,
Interview: Jeya Ayadurai

PART II: Out into this World: Sensory Hells

The Taste of Food in Hell: Cognition and the Buried Myth of Tantalus in Early Modern English Texts,
Laura Seymour

Hell's Kitchen: Underworlds in Leonora Carrington's Down Below and The Hearing Trumpet,
Hannah Silverblank

Samuel Beckett's Not I,
Interview: Lisa Dwan

PART III: Mind the Gap: Telling the Tale

Terra tremens: Katabasis in Seamus Heaney's District and Circle (2006),
Rachel Falconer

Whirlpools, Black Holes and Vortical Hells in Literature,
Jonathan R. Olson

The Song of Orpheus,
Interview: David Almond

Summary

Essays considering the representation and perception of hell in a variety of texts.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Appleton, Jeya Ayadurai, Charlotte Jones, Margaret Kean, Caroline Palmer, Laura Seymour
• Assisted by: Dr Margaret Kean (Editor), Dr. Margaret Kean (Editor), Margaret Kean (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781843846093
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-609-3
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 224 mm x 144 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 370 g
• Illustrations: 6 b/w illus.
• Series: Essays and Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies