This life, this world : : new essays on Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Gilead and Home / / edited by Jason W. Stevens.

• Superior document: Dialogue, Volume 19
• TeilnehmendeR: Stevens, Jason W., 1975-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ; : Brill :, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Rodopi,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Dialogue (Rodopi (Firm)) ; Volume 19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This 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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Jason W. Stevens -- Introduction / Jason Stevens -- Housekeeping, Wordsworth, and the Sublimity of Unsurrendered Wilderness / Jonathan Arac and Susan Balée -- At Home with Transience: Reconfiguring Female Characters of the American West in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping / Corina Crisu -- Religion, Literature, and the Environment in the Work of Marilynne Robinson / George B. Handley -- Becoming a Creature of Artful Existence: Theological Perception and Ecological Design in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead / Chad Wriglesworth -- Sentimentality and Grace: Marilynne Robinson and Nineteenth-Century Prodigal Son Narratives / Rachel B. Griffis -- In the Face of Mystery: Soteriological Symbolism in Gilead and Home / Mark S.M. Scott -- Marilynne Robinson’s Merging of Medicine and Literature: Therapeutic Journaling as Balm in Gilead / Janella Moy -- The Privilege of Loneliness, the Kindness of Home: “Felt Experience” in the Writing of Marilynne Robinson / Carolyn Allen -- “Jack Boughton has a Wife and a Child”: Generative Blackness in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead and Home / Yumi Pak -- Robinson and Updike: Houses, Domesticity, and the Numinous Quotidian / James Schiff -- An Interview with Marilynne Robinson / Jason Stevens -- Selected Bibliography / Jason W. Stevens -- Index / Jason W. Stevens.