Lucas H. Harriman lives in Davie, Florida, and is pursuing doctoral work at the University of Miami.

“a worthy addition”—SFRA Review; “valuable...any serious scholar attempting to write about Lilith or to approach fantansy literature of the fin de siecle will welcome this volume”—Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction      1. Liminality in Lilith      ROBERT A. COLLINS2. Liminality and the Everyday in Lilith      TOM SHIPPEY3. Lilith, Textuality, and the Rhetoric of Romance      MICHAEL MENDELSON4. Myth, Mysticism, and Magic: Reading at the Close of Lilith      VERLYN FLIEGER5. The Logic of Fantasy and the Crisis of Closure in Lilith      COLIN MANLOVE6. The Demoness and the Grail: Deciphering Lilith      JEANNE MURRAY WALKER7. A Fresh Look at Lilith’s Perplexing Dimensions      ROLLAND HEIN8. Collins Agonistes; or, Why Did I Bother To?      ROGER C. SCHLOBIN9. The Revelatory Potential of Lilith’s Immanent Eternity      LUCAS H. HARRIMAN10. Frustrated Interpretation in Lilith      JOHN PENNINGTON11. Liminality as Psychic Stage in Lilith      RODERICK MCGILLIS12. Cosmic and Psychological Redemption in Lilith      BONNIE GAARDEN13. Lilith as the Mystic’s Magnum Opus      ELIZABETH ROBINSON14. Chiasmatic Christianity: Lilith’s Sense of an Ending      KELLY SEARSMITH15. The (As Yet) Endless Ending of Lilith      DAVID M. MILLERAbout the Contributors      Index

Lucas H. Harriman lives in Davie, Florida, and is pursuing doctoral work at the University of Miami.

“a worthy addition”—SFRA Review; “valuable...any serious scholar attempting to write about Lilith or to approach fantansy literature of the fin de siecle will welcome this volume”—Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction      1. Liminality in Lilith      ROBERT A. COLLINS2. Liminality and the Everyday in Lilith      TOM SHIPPEY3. Lilith, Textuality, and the Rhetoric of Romance      MICHAEL MENDELSON4. Myth, Mysticism, and Magic: Reading at the Close of Lilith      VERLYN FLIEGER5. The Logic of Fantasy and the Crisis of Closure in Lilith      COLIN MANLOVE6. The Demoness and the Grail: Deciphering Lilith      JEANNE MURRAY WALKER7. A Fresh Look at Lilith’s Perplexing Dimensions      ROLLAND HEIN8. Collins Agonistes; or, Why Did I Bother To?      ROGER C. SCHLOBIN9. The Revelatory Potential of Lilith’s Immanent Eternity      LUCAS H. HARRIMAN10. Frustrated Interpretation in Lilith      JOHN PENNINGTON11. Liminality as Psychic Stage in Lilith      RODERICK MCGILLIS12. Cosmic and Psychological Redemption in Lilith      BONNIE GAARDEN13. Lilith as the Mystic’s Magnum Opus      ELIZABETH ROBINSON14. Chiasmatic Christianity: Lilith’s Sense of an Ending      KELLY SEARSMITH15. The (As Yet) Endless Ending of Lilith      DAVID M. MILLERAbout the Contributors      Index

Lucas H. Harriman lives in Davie, Florida, and is pursuing doctoral work at the University of Miami.

“a worthy addition”—SFRA Review; “valuable...any serious scholar attempting to write about Lilith or to approach fantansy literature of the fin de siecle will welcome this volume”—Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction      1. Liminality in Lilith      ROBERT A. COLLINS2. Liminality and the Everyday in Lilith      TOM SHIPPEY3. Lilith, Textuality, and the Rhetoric of Romance      MICHAEL MENDELSON4. Myth, Mysticism, and Magic: Reading at the Close of Lilith      VERLYN FLIEGER5. The Logic of Fantasy and the Crisis of Closure in Lilith      COLIN MANLOVE6. The Demoness and the Grail: Deciphering Lilith      JEANNE MURRAY WALKER7. A Fresh Look at Lilith’s Perplexing Dimensions      ROLLAND HEIN8. Collins Agonistes; or, Why Did I Bother To?      ROGER C. SCHLOBIN9. The Revelatory Potential of Lilith’s Immanent Eternity      LUCAS H. HARRIMAN10. Frustrated Interpretation in Lilith      JOHN PENNINGTON11. Liminality as Psychic Stage in Lilith      RODERICK MCGILLIS12. Cosmic and Psychological Redemption in Lilith      BONNIE GAARDEN13. Lilith as the Mystic’s Magnum Opus      ELIZABETH ROBINSON14. Chiasmatic Christianity: Lilith’s Sense of an Ending      KELLY SEARSMITH15. The (As Yet) Endless Ending of Lilith      DAVID M. MILLERAbout the Contributors      Index