Literary History of Reconciliation

Power, Remorse and the Limits of Forgiveness

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvJan Frans van Dijkhuizen

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From William Shakespeare to Marilynne Robinson, this book examines representations of interpersonal reconciliation in works of literature, focusing on how these representations draw on the language of divine forgiveness. Christian theology sees divine forgiveness as conditional upon a sinner’s remorse and self-abasement before God, but also as a form of grace – unconditional and rooted only in divine love. Van Dijkhuizen explores what happens when this paradoxical forgiveness paradigm comes to serve as a template for interpersonal reconciliation. As A Literary History of Reconciliation shows, literary writers imagine interpersonal reconciliation as being centrally about power and hierarchy, and present forgiveness without power as longed for but ever elusive. Drawing on major works of literature from the early modern era to the present day, this book explores works by John Milton, Virginia Woolf, J.M. Coetzee, Ian McEwan and others to craft a literary history that will appeal to readers interested in literature, religion and philosophy.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-09-06
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt526 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350027220

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List of FiguresAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. 'None Left But By Submission': Paradise Lost and the Genesis of Reconciiliation3. 'Ask Her Forgiveness?': Reconciiliation, Power and Grace in Shakespeare4. 'Pray Your Honour Forgive Me!': Hierarchical Forgiveness from Pamela to Bleak House5. 'The Apathy of the Stars': Impersonal Reconciliation in To the Lighthouse and Ulysses6. 'Not Quite Not Yet': History, Forgiveness and the Literary Imagination in Disgrace and Atonement7. 'The Prairie Still Shines like Transfiguration': Forgiveness, Theology and Politics in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead NovelsNotesBibliographyIndex

A thoughtful overview of reconciliation in modern literature … Dijkhuizen traces reconciliation’s history through novels such as Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, William Godwin’s Caleb Williams, and Charles Dickens’s Dombey and Son, thus also sketching the emergence of the modern subject. These valuable readings provide valuable insights … Modernists—Virginia Woolf, James Joyce—are read in such a way as to show not only that reconciliation is an important theme but also that their plots are as important as their style. Summing Up: Recommended.