Arthur Machen: Ecstasy and Epiphany

This essay examines the treatment of epiphany in the fiction of Arthur Machen from 1894 to 1922. It argues that whereas modernist writers often preferred to detach the notion of epiphany from its originally spiritual context, Machen’s characters experience versions of it inflected by pagan and Chris...

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Main Author: Freeman, Nicholas (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2010
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 242-255
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