A literary history of reconciliation : power, remorse and the limits of forgiveness /

From William Shakespeare to Jonathan Franzen, this book traces the cultural history of the idea of 'reconciliation' in literature, religion and politics. By tracing how remorse moved from being a spiritual experience built on Christian notions of forgiveness to a question of ethics, A Lite...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dijkhuizen, Jan Frans van, 1970- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2018]
Subjects:	Reconciliation in literature. Forgiveness > Religious aspects > Christianity.

Table of Contents:

"None left but by submission": Paradise Lost and the genesis of reconciliation
"Ask her forgiveness?": Reconciliation, power and grace in four Shakespeare plays
"Pray your honour forgive me!": Hierarchical forgiveness from Pamela to Bleak House
"The apathy of the stars": Impersonal reconciliation in To the Lighthouse and Ulysses
"Not quite, not yet": History, reconciliation and the literary imagination in disgrace and atonement
"The prairie still shines like transfiguration": Forgiveness, politics and theology in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead Novels.