After Satan: Essays in Honour of Neil Forsyth / Kirsten Stirling and Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère

This volume is the result of a collective desire to pay homage to Neil Forsyth, whose work has significantly contributed to scholarship on Satan. This volume is 'after' Satan in more ways than one, tracing the afterlife of both the Satanic figure in literature and of Neil Forsyth's contribution to the field, particularly in his major books 'The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth' (Princeton UP, 1987, revised 1990) and 'The Satanic Epic' (Princeton UP, 2003). The essays in this volume draw on Forsyth's work as a focus for their analyses of literary encounters with evil or with the Devil himself, reflecting the richness and variety of contemporary approaches to the age-old question of how to represent evil. All the contributors acknowledge Neil Forsyth's influence in the study of both the Satan-figure and Milton's Paradise Lost. But beyond simply paying homage to Neil Forsyth, the articles collected here trace the lineage of the Satan figure through literary history, showing how evil can function as a necessary other against which a community may define itself. They chart the demonised other through biblical history, medieval chronicle, seventeenth-century elegies and nineteenth-century editions of Shakespeare. There are three articles on Milton's great work, and the articles on works written before and after 'Paradise Lost' all show the importance and the influence of Milton's Satan in interpretations of the presence of evil in literature across the centuries. Many of the contributors find that literary evil is mediated through the lens of the Satan of 'Paradise Lost', and their articles address the notion, raised by Neil Forsyth in 'The Satanic Epic,' that the literary Devil-figures under consideration are particularly interested in linguistic ambivalence and the twisted texture of literary works themselves. The multiple responses to evil and the continuous reinvention of the devil figure through the centuries all reaffirm the textual presence of the Devil, his changing forms necessarily inscribed in the shifting history of western literary culture. These essays are a tribute to the work of Neil Forsyth, whose scholarship has illuminated and guided the study of the Devil in English and other literatures.
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