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Structurally Cosmic Apostasy: The Atheist Occult World Of H.P. Lovecraft, Brian J. Reis
Structurally Cosmic Apostasy: The Atheist Occult World Of H.P. Lovecraft, Brian J. Reis
LUX: A Journal of Transdisciplinary Writing and Research from Claremont Graduate University
The conflict between materialism and spiritualism has a long and sordid philosophical history. Both schools of thought attempted to address the problems of the unknown through varying methods. There are two figures, who i their own ways, one subtle ad the other not so subtle rejected both means. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky sought to counter Spiritualist claims by venturing into her own occult philosophy—Theosophy—seeking to uncover spiritual truths, debunking religious traditions as well as seeking to undermine scientific materialism that had begun to sweep the intellectual life of the 19th century. To do so, she claimed to have translated an …
Jane Austen’S Anglicanism By Laura Mooneyham White, Andrew O. Winckles
Jane Austen’S Anglicanism By Laura Mooneyham White, Andrew O. Winckles
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
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Madam Britannia: Women, Church, And Nation, 1712-1812, By Emma Major, Kathryn Stasio
Madam Britannia: Women, Church, And Nation, 1712-1812, By Emma Major, Kathryn Stasio
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
No abstract provided.
Satanic Indifference And Ultimate Reality, Brian J. Reis
Satanic Indifference And Ultimate Reality, Brian J. Reis
LUX: A Journal of Transdisciplinary Writing and Research from Claremont Graduate University
Satan has captured the imagination of writers in the English language for centuries. This figure and the notion of evil have gone through many changes in English literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Something changed Satan during this time, and made him into an arbiter of truth rather than a figure of rebellion. In The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain used him as the grand narrator of the universe who explains the truth of all existence, that life is an illusion. The American horror author H.P. Lovecraft carried this one step further, using Rudolf Otto's mysterium horrendum to divest Satan …
The Scarlet Letter: A Façade For Subversion Of Patriarchy, Tessa Arnold
The Scarlet Letter: A Façade For Subversion Of Patriarchy, Tessa Arnold
The Corinthian
This essay will work in two parts. First, it will examine The Scarlet Letter as representing a dystopian society created by political and religious leaders’ thirst for power and control above the needs and desires of the people whom they are supposed to protect. The second part of this essay will examine the effects of the dystopian Puritan society specifically as it relates to Hester Prynne.