The Hermeneutics of Hell: Visions and Representations of the Devil in World Literature

1 Introduction: The Devil You Know and the Devils You Don't Know.- 2 Two Brass Mites of the Widow : Saint Bridget of Sweden and the Terrors of Hell.- 3 The Uses of Tentatio: Satan, Luther, and Theological Maturation.- 4 As an Angel of Light: Satanic Rhetoric in Early Modern Literature and Theology.- 5 Astrophal redivivus: The Coinage of the Discourse on the Devil in the Early Modern Age in Georg Bernardt SJ's Tundalus redivivus (1622).- 6 The Drama of Hell: Sources and Interpretation in 17th Century Operatic Infernal Scenes.- 7 The Dia-bolic Logic of logos Towards a Hermeneutics of Hell in Goethe's Faust.- 8 Literature, Theology, Survival.- 9 Dostoevsky's Demons.- 10 "la manière de Milton": Baudelaire Reads Milton's Satan.- 11 Money as the Devil in B. Traven's "Assembly Line" and Its Sources in Scripture, the Faust Legend, and New England Puritanism.- 12 Visions of Hell in Flannery O'Connor.- 13 "He Haunts One for Hours Afterwards": Demonic Dissonance in Milton's Satan and Lovecraft's Nyarlathotep.- 14 "The One Who Knocks:" Milton's Lucifer and the American Tragic Character.- 15 Reading the devil in the landscape.- 16 A Landscape of the Damned: Evil and Nothingness in Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark.