Forgiveness in Victorian literature : grammar, narrative, and community / Richard Hughes Gibson.

By: Material type: TextSeries: New directions in religion and literaturePublisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015Description: xiv, 169 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781780937113
  • 1780937113
  • 9781350003750
  • 1350003751
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR 871 .G53 2015
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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."-- Back cover.
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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.

"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."-- Back cover.

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