This life, this world : new essays on Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Gilead and Home / edited by Jason W. Stevens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stevens, Jason W., 1975- editor.

Series:

Dialogue (Rodopi (Firm)) ; Volume 19.

Dialogue, 1574-9630 ; Volume 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian fiction, American--History and criticism.

Christian fiction, American.

Robinson, Marilynne--Criticism and interpretation.

Robinson, Marilynne.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill : Rodopi, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the author’s award-winning novels while also engaging her non-fiction. As the first book devoted entirely to Robinson and to her diverse contributions to literature and scholarship, This Life, This World familiarizes readers with the major currents in her thought and moves scholarly dialogue into new theoretical directions. An interdisciplinary group, the contributors bring to their subject a diversity of perspectives—Romanticism, ecocriticism, medicine and literature, religion and literature, theology, American Studies, critical race theory, and feminist and gender studies—that reflects the amplitude and fecundity of Robinson’s art and thought. The book begins with an annotated timeline and concludes with a substantive written interview with Robinson wherein she reflects on her work and its reception. A tremendous resource for Robinson enthusiasts and for readers interested in the questions she raises in her fiction and non-fiction.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Jason W. Stevens

Introduction / Jason Stevens

Housekeeping, Wordsworth, and the Sublimity of Unsurrendered Wilderness / Jonathan Arac and Susan Balée

At Home with Transience: Reconfiguring Female Characters of the American West in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping / Corina Crisu

Religion, Literature, and the Environment in the Work of Marilynne Robinson / George B. Handley

Becoming a Creature of Artful Existence: Theological Perception and Ecological Design in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead / Chad Wriglesworth

Sentimentality and Grace: Marilynne Robinson and Nineteenth-Century Prodigal Son Narratives / Rachel B. Griffis

In the Face of Mystery: Soteriological Symbolism in Gilead and Home / Mark S.M. Scott

Marilynne Robinson’s Merging of Medicine and Literature: Therapeutic Journaling as Balm in Gilead / Janella Moy

The Privilege of Loneliness, the Kindness of Home: “Felt Experience” in the Writing of Marilynne Robinson / Carolyn Allen

“Jack Boughton has a Wife and a Child”: Generative Blackness in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead and Home / Yumi Pak

Robinson and Updike: Houses, Domesticity, and the Numinous Quotidian / James Schiff

An Interview with Marilynne Robinson / Jason Stevens

Selected Bibliography / Jason W. Stevens

Index / Jason W. Stevens.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-30223-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004302235 DOI