Marilynne Robinson

Rachel Sykes is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary American Literature at the University of BirminghamJennifer Daly is an independent researcher and Research Strategy Officer at Trinity College DublinAnna Maguire Elliott is Senior Research Administrator at the University of Portsmouth

• Introduction – Rachel Sykes, Jennifer Daly, and Anna Maguire ElliottRobinson in context: A critical discussion – Sarah Churchwell, Richard H. King, Bridget BennettWriting, form, and style1 ‘It might be better to burn them’: Archive fever and the Gilead novels of Marilynne Robinson – Daniel King2 ‘One day she would tell him what she knew’: Disturbance of the epistemological conventions of the marriage plot in Lila – Maria Elena Carpintero Torres-Quevedo3 Robinson’s triumphs of style – Jack BakerGender and environment4 The female orphan and an ecofeminist ethic-of-care in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and Lila – Anna Maguire Elliott5 Souls all unaccompanied: Enacting feminine alterity in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping – Makayla Steiner6 The domestic geographies of grief: Bereavement, time and home spaces in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and Home – Lucy ClarkeImagined histories: Race, religion, and rights7 Domesticating political feeling, affect and memory in Marilynne Robinson’s Home – Christopher Lloyd8 ‘Onward Christian liberals’: Marilynne Robinson’s essays and the crisis of mainline Protestantism – Alexander Engebretson9 Presence in absence: The spectre of race in Gilead and Home – Emily Hammerton-BarryRobinson and her contemporaries10 ‘Everything can change’: Civil rights, civil war and radical transformation in Home and Gilead – Tessa Roynon11 ‘A great admirer of American education’: Robinson as professor and defender of ‘America’s best idea’ – Steve Gronert Ellerhoff and Kathryn E. Engebretson12 Acknowledging a numinous ordinary: Marilynne Robinson and Stanley Cavell – Paul JennerEpilogue – ‘A little different every time’: Accumulation and repetition in Jack – Rachel Sykes