Overview: Ranges in literary focus from medieval to contemporary literature.Discusses the Devil in a wide variety of religious contexts including Christian and Judaic.Features an international group of scholarsThis collection of essays analyzes global depictions of the devil from theological, Biblical, and literary perspectives, spanning the late Middle Ages to the 21st century. The chapters explore demonic representations in the literary works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Dante Alighieri, Charles Baudelaire, John Milton, H.P. Lovecraft, and Cormac McCarthy, among others.
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