Gothic fiction tells us the truth about our divided nature Flashcards
1
Q
who is Alison Milbank?
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a scholar of Gothic fiction who researches tales about vampires, ghosts and doppelgangers, and incestuous maniacs pursuing maidens down underground passages
2
Q
what does she say about religion?
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she studies the relevance these discoveries have on a Christian audience, as her fellow critics would doubt they have anything but a negative truth to tell to religion
3
Q
Freud?
A
since Freud, the apparition of the supernatural has been believed to be repression
