Abstract

Many of critics have suggested that the author of The Biography of the Life of Manuel was obsessed with diabolism, and that the Cabellian hero was cursed by foreknowledge of his own damnation. Edgar E. MacDonald, for example, writes, Cabell's hero invariably has a well-developed sense of damnation, but he appears to prefer that state to the conventional morality of society. Edmund Wilson would trace recurrent theme of damnation to the Calvinism of paternal Presbyterian ancestry. 1 Joe Lee Davis, in his book-length study, describes one of major characters in the following terms:

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