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Marilynne Robinson /

Marilynne Robinson features 16 new and exciting essays on the noted American author, the historical settings of her novels, and the contemporary themes of her fiction and nonfiction.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sykes, Rachel (Editor ), Elliott, Anna Maguire (Editor ), Daly, Jennifer, 1981- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.
Colección:Contemporary American and Canadian Writers Series.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • <P>Introduction
  • Rachel Sykes, Jennifer Daly, and Anna Maguire Elliott<br>Robinson in context: A critical discussion
  • Sarah Churchwell, Richard H. King, Bridget Bennett<br><br>Writing, form, and style<br>1 'It might be better to burn them': Archive fever and the Gilead novels of Marilynne Robinson
  • Daniel King<br>2 'One day she would tell him what she knew': Disturbance of the epistemological conventions of the marriage plot in <i>Lila</i>
  • Maria Elena Carpintero Torres-Quevedo<br>3 Robinson's triumphs of style
  • Jack Baker<br><br>Gender and environment<br>4 The female orphan and an ecofeminist ethic-of-care in Marilynne Robinson's <i>Housekeeping</i> and <i>Lila</i>
  • Anna Maguire Elliott<br>5 Souls all unaccompanied: Enacting feminine alterity in Marilynne Robinson's <i>Housekeeping</i>
  • Makayla Steiner<br>6 The domestic geographies of grief: Bereavement, time and home spaces in Marilynne Robinson's <i>Housekeeping</i> and <i>Home</i>
  • Lucy Clarke<br><br>Imagined histories: Race, religion, and rights<br>7 Domesticating political feeling, affect and memory in Marilynne Robinson's <i>Home</i>
  • Christopher Lloyd<br>8 'Onward Christian liberals': Marilynne Robinson's essays and the crisis of mainline Protestantism
  • Alexander Engebretson<br>9 Presence in absence: The spectre of race in <i>Gilead</i> and <i>Home</i>
  • Emily Hammerton-Barry<br><br>Robinson and her contemporaries<br>10 'Everything can change': Civil rights, civil war and radical transformation in <i>Home</i> and <i>Gilead</i>
  • Tessa Roynon<br>11 'A great admirer of American education': Robinson as professor and defender of 'America's best idea'
  • Steve Gronert Ellerhoff and Kathryn E. Engebretson<br>12 Acknowledging a numinous ordinary: Marilynne Robinson and Stanley Cavell
  • Paul Jenner<br><br>Epilogue
  • 'A little different every time': Accumulation and repetition in <i>Jack</i>
  • Rachel Sykes</p>