Article: The "loveliest and lordliest": gender and the spiritual journey in Charles Williams' All Hallows' Eve.(Critical essay)

ALL of the relatively few scholars who have written about Charles Williams's last novel, All Hallows' Eve, seem to agree that it is rich with theological significance and portrays its characters as participants in a spiritual quest that leads to their redemption or damnation. Clifford Davidson focuses his analysis on the contextual necessity for evil or "[t]he Way of Perversity" to the effective portrayal of the good; both he and Bernadette Bosky discuss the role of "Goetia, the selfish and obscene pursuit of magic or witchcraft in order to wrest power away from Heaven" (Davidson 86) in Williams's literary realization of his Christian convictions. A critical component of ...

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