This Life, This World: New Essays on Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, Gilead, and HomeThis 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
Introduction | 1 |
Housekeeping Wordsworth and the Sublimity of Unsurrendered Wilderness | 24 |
Reconfiguring Female Characters of the American West in Marilynne Robinsons Housekeeping | 38 |
Religion Literature and the Environment in the Work of Marilynne Robinson | 59 |
Theological Perception and Ecological Design in Marilynne Robinsons Gilead | 91 |
Marilynne Robinson and NineteenthCentury Prodigal Son Narratives | 131 |
Soteriological Symbolism in Gilead and Home | 148 |
Therapeutic Journaling as Balm in Gilead | 171 |
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