VERLAG STAUEEMBURG. of God to Man": Literature and Theodicy. Edited by. Rudolf Freiburg and Susanne Gruss

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1 " But Vindicate the Ways of God to Man": Literature and Theodicy Edited by Rudolf Freiburg and Susanne Gruss With the assistance of Sitnone Broders and Katharina Lempe STAUEEMBURG VERLAG

2 Table of Contents Preface 9 RUDOLF FREIBURG, SUSANNE GRUSS, Erlangen-NUrnberg Introduction: Literature and Theodicy, Literature as Theodicy 13 17th /18 u. Century JURGEN KLEIN, Greifswald Francis Bacon ( ): Natural Philosophy as Theodicy 49 SlMONE BRODERS, Erlangen-NUrnberg "A True Poet, and of the Devil's Party" - Theodicy and Paradox in John Milton's Paradise Lost 73 HERMANN J. REAL, MUnster Conversations with a Theodicist: William King's Essay on the Origin of Evil, with Some Sidelights on Hobbes, Milton, and Pope 85 KEVIN L. COPE, Baton Rouge The Panorama of Theodicy, Or, Appealing Impressions of Evil in Assorted ls^-century Descriptive Writers, with a View toward Leibniz 113 BREAN S. HAMMOND, Nottingham "The Print of a Man's Naked Foot": Do-It-Yourself Theodicy in Robinson Crusoe.'; 131 IAN SIMPSON ROSS, Vancouver Aspects of Hume's Treatment of the Problem of Evil 141 JOHN A. BAKER, Paris Wishful Thinking? Theodicy and the Divine Economy in Edward Young's Night Thoughts ( ) 153 BRUCE ARNOLD, Glenageary Aspects of Theodicy in Jonathan Swift's Work 171

3 6 Table of Contents FLAVIO GREGORI, Venezia Gulliver's Myopic Reformation: Reason and Evil in Gulliver's Travels 181 HOWARD D. WEINBROT, Madison Hearts of Darkness: Swift, Johnson, and the Narrative Confrontation with Evil 205 RUDOLF FREIBURG, Erlangen-NUrnberg The Pleasures of Pain?: Soame Jenyns versus Samuel Johnson 225 ARNO LOFFLER, Erlangen-NUrnberg Goldsmith and the "Equal Dealings of Heaven": The Problem of Evil in The Vicar of Wakefield th Century EBERHARD SPATH, Erlangen-NUrnberg "Did He Smile His Work to See?": Blake and the History of Theodicy 261 RICHARD MATLAK, Worcester, Mass. William Wordsworth's "Elegiac Stanzas" and Sir George Beaumont's Peel Castle in a Storm 279 DIETER MEINDL, Erlangen-NUrnberg Melville, Theodicy, and the Grotesque 289 HEINZ-JOACHIM MULLENBROCK, Gottingen Charles Kingsley's Hereward the Wake: The Novelist as a Providential Historian \ 307 HANS ULRICH SEEBER, Stuttgart The Fascination of Beauty and of Evil in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) 321

4 Table of Contents 7 20 th Century GEORG LANGENHORST, Erlangen-NUrnberg Struggling with God under the Sign of Job: Job in the English Literature of the 20 th Century 339 KRYSTYNA STAMIROWSKA, Krakow Reaching the Heart of the Matter: Sin and Grace in the Novels of Graham Greene and Franc,ois Mauriac 359 RlA OMASREITER-BLAICHER, Erlangen-NUrnberg The Fortunate Fall: Sin and Sinners in Graham Greene's Novels 371 BERNFRIED NUGEL, MUnster "A Kind of Early Christian Malignity": Aldous Huxley's Analysis of Evil in His Later Works 385 GlSELA SCHLUTER, Erlangen-NUrnberg The Theodicy-Sequence in Albert Camus's La Peste 403 SUSANA ONEGA, Zaragoza Camusian Existentialism and the Question of Evil in the Early Fiction of John Fowles 421 MARTIN NlCOL, Erlangen-NUrnberg Living with the Hidden God: The Individual's Suffering in Modern Poetry 441 ERHARD RECKWTTZ, Essen The Evil State: Police Brutality in South African Fiction 455 PETER PAUL SCHNIERER, Heidelberg Violent Redemptions: Negotiations of Evil in Contemporary British and Irish Drama 471 ANNEGRET MAACK, Wuppertal "Writing Moral Fiction in a Moral Vacuum": Ian McEwan's and Martin Amis's Fictional Worlds 485

5 8 Table of Contents DIETER PETZOLD, Erlangen-NUrnberg The Problem of Evil in Modern (Anti-)Christian Fantasy Novels 501 BARBARA KORTE, Freiburg "God Keeps Disappearing": Anne Michaels's Fugitive Pieces: The Imperatives of Love and Beauty after the Holocaust 519 SUSANNE GRUSS, Erlangen-NUrnberg Megalomaniac Ice-Cream Cone, Sulking Mistress, Sadistic Slacker: God in Postmodern Narratives 533 Selected Bibliography 551 Notes on Contributors 557 Index 563