Chesterton and Evil

In the engaging Chesterton and Evil, Mark Knight offers a compelling analysis of Gilbert Keith Chesterton and the influence of his late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fiction. In his Autobiography, Chesterton observed: Perhaps, when I eventually emerged as a sort of theorist, and was described as an Optimist, it was because I was one of the few people in that world of diabolism who really believed in devils. Arguing that a serious analysis of the nature of evil is at the center of Chesterton’s fiction, Knight provides a means of locating Chesterton’s work among theological and cultural concerns of his age.