A Literary History of Reconciliation: Power, Remorse and the Limits of Forgiveness
Author:   Professor Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Pages:   248
Publication Date:   19 March 2020
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Author:   Professor Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.354kg
ISBN:  

9781350154841


ISBN 10:   1350154849
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   19 March 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Figures Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. 'None Left But By Submission': Paradise Lost and the Genesis of Reconciiliation 3. 'Ask Her Forgiveness?': Reconciiliation, Power and Grace in Shakespeare 4. 'Pray Your Honour Forgive Me!': Hierarchical Forgiveness from Pamela to Bleak House 5. 'The Apathy of the Stars': Impersonal Reconciliation in To the Lighthouse and Ulysses 6. 'Not Quite Not Yet': History, Forgiveness and the Literary Imagination in Disgrace and Atonement 7. 'The Prairie Still Shines like Transfiguration': Forgiveness, Theology and Politics in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead Novels Notes Bibliography Index

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A thoughtful overview of reconciliation in modern literature ... Dijkhuizen traces reconciliation's history through novels such as Samuel Richardson's Pamela, William Godwin's Caleb Williams, and Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son, thus also sketching the emergence of the modern subject. These valuable readings provide valuable insights ... Modernists-Virginia Woolf, James Joyce-are read in such a way as to show not only that reconciliation is an important theme but also that their plots are as important as their style. Summing Up: Recommended. * Choice *


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Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. His previous books include Pain and Compassion in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (2012) and Devil Theatre: Demonic Possession and Exorcism in English Renaissance Drama (2007).

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