The Hermeneutics of Hell

1. Introduction: The Devil We Know and the Devils We Don’t Know
Daniel Russ, Gregor Thuswaldner

2. “Two Brass Mites of the Widow”: Saint Bridget of Sweden and the Terrors of Hell
Mark Edwin Peterson

3. The Uses of Tentatio: Satan, Luther, and Theological Maturation
Carl P. E. Springer

4. As an Angel of Light: Satanic Rhetoric in Early Modern Literature and Theology
David Parry

5. Astrophal Redivivus: The Coinage of the Discourse on the Devil in the Early Modern Age in Georg Bernardt S.J.’s Tundalus Redivivus (1622)
David Johannes Olszynski

6. The Drama of Hell: Sources and Interpretation in Seventeenth-Century Operatic Infernal Scenes
Aliyah M. Shanti

7. The Diabolic Logic of
Logos

: Towards a Hermeneutics of Hell in Goethe’s Faust

Caroline Sauter

8. Literature, Theology, Survival
S. Jonathon O’Donnell

9. Dostoevsky’s Demons
Irina Kuznetsova

10. Money as the Devil in B. Traven’s “Assembly Line,” and Its Sources in Scripture, the Faust Legend, and New England Puritanism
Anthony R. Grasso C.S.C.

11. “la manière de Milton”: Baudelaire Reads Milton’s Satan
Matthew J. Smith

12. Visions of Hell in Flannery O’Connor
George Piggford C.S.C

13. “He Haunts One for Hours Afterwards”: Demonic Dissonance in Milton’s Satan and Lovecraft’s Nyarlathotep
Marcello Ricciardi

14. “The One Who Knocks”: Milton’s Lucifer and the American Tragic Character
Edward Simon

15. Reading the Devil in the Landscape
Deborah C. Bowen

16. A Landscape of the Damned: Evil and Nothingness in Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark

Matthew Potts

Avainsanat: Literature, Literary History, Comparative Literature, Medieval Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literature and Technology/Media, Contemporary Literature