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The fiction of Robin Jenkins : some kind of grace / edited by Douglas Gifford and Linden Bicket.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; Volume 26.
- Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature, 1571-0734 ; Volume 26
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--Scottish authors--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Scotland--In literature.
- Scotland.
- Jenkins, Robin, 1912-2005--Criticism and interpretation.
- Jenkins, Robin.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (261 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill Rodopi, 2017.
- Summary:
- The Fiction of Robin Jenkins is the first ever volume of essays dedicated to Robin Jenkins (1912-2005), hailed by Andrew Marr as ‘the best-kept secret in Modern British Literature’, and by the Scotsman in 2000 as ‘the greatest living fiction-writer in Scotland […] the Scottish Thomas Hardy’. This new study of Jenkins includes essays across his entire, astonishingly varied body of work. It includes provocative new readings of a range of thematic issues by established experts on Jenkins and on Scottish Literature more broadly. This volume also includes chapters dedicated to individual novels in Jenkins’s corpus, including his best-known work, The Cone-Gatherers , as well as The Changeling, Fergus Lamont , and his posthumous novel, The Pearl Fishers . Contributors: Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir, Timothy C. Baker, Linden Bicket, Gerard Carruthers, Cairns Craig, Douglas Gifford, Michael Lamont, Margery Palmer McCulloch, Isobel Murray, Glenda Norquay, Alan Riach, David Robb, Bernard Sellin, Gavin Wallace.
- Contents:
- The Range and Achievement of Robin Jenkins: An Introductory Overview / Gavin Wallace and Douglas Gifford
- ‘Fresh and truthful eyes’: Jenkins’s Early Scottish Fiction (1950–1958) / Isobel Murray
- Ironic Mythology: Reading the Fictiveness of The Cone-Gatherers / Gerard Carruthers
- ‘To Bring Profoundest Sympathy’: Jenkins and Community / Timothy C. Baker
- The Art of Uncertainty: Forms of Omniscience in the Novels of Robin Jenkins / Cairns Craig
- Realism, Symbolism, and Authorial Manipulation in The Changeling / Douglas Gifford
- Robin Jenkins: Perspectives on the Postcolonial / Glenda Norquay
- Robin Jenkins: The Short Stories / Alan Riach
- ‘Pilgrims of Conscience’ in the Fiction of Robin Jenkins / Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir
- What’s the Story in Fergus Lamont? Or ‘Where was Fergus when Kennedy got Shot?’ / Michael Lamont and Douglas Gifford
- Confessions of an Unbeliever: Religion in the Novels of Robin Jenkins / Bernard Sellin
- ‘A Kind of Truth’: Innocence and Corruption in Lady Magdalen and Just Duffy / Margery Palmer McCulloch
- The Past is Not a Foreign Country: Jenkins, Scotland and History / David S. Robb
- Reprise or Resolution? A Would-be Saint and Robin Jenkins’s Final Novel, The Pearl Fishers / Linden Bicket
- Old Themes and Self-Reflection in Jenkins’s Later Novels / Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-34249-4
- OCLC:
- 972090367
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004342491 DOI
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