TY - BOOK AU - Gibson,Richard Hughes TI - Forgiveness in Victorian literature: grammar, narrative, and community T2 - New directions in religion and literature SN - 9781780937113 AV - PR 871 .G53 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - London, New York PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - English literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Forgiveness in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-165) and index; Introduction. Grammar, narrative, and continuity -- Dickens and forgiveness in 1846 : liberality and liability -- Forgiving in community : Trollope's The Vicar of Bullhampton and Eliot's Adam Bede -- Forgiving in the nineties : Hardy's Jude the Obscure and Wilde's De Profundis N2 - "Traces how eminent writers--including Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, and Oscar Wilde--wrestled with the religious and social meanings of forgiveness in an age of theological controversy and increasing ethical pluralism."-- ER -