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Marilynne Robinson

Edited by Rachel Sykes, Anna Maguire Elliott and Jennifer Daly

Marilynne Robinson
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  • Publish Date: Mar 2022
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    Best known for a trilogy of historical novels set in the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa, Marilynne Robinson is a prolific writer, teacher, and public speaker, who has won the Pulitzer Prize and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by Barack Obama. This collection intervenes in Robinson's growing critical reputation, pointing to new and exciting links between the author, the historical settings of her novels, and the contemporary themes of her fictional, educational, and theoretical work. Introduced by a critical discussion from Professors Bridget Bennett, Sarah Churchwell, and Richard King, Marilynne Robinson features analysis from a range of international academics, and explores debates in race, gender, environment, critical theory, and more, to suggest new and innovative readings of her work.

    Contents

    Introduction - Rachel Sykes, Jennifer Daly, and Anna Maguire Elliott
    Robinson in context: A critical discussion - Sarah Churchwell, Richard H. King, Bridget Bennett

    Writing, form, and style
    1 'It might be better to burn them': Archive fever and the Gilead novels of Marilynne Robinson - Daniel King
    2 'One day she would tell him what she knew': Disturbance of the epistemological conventions of the marriage plot in Lila - Maria Elena Carpintero Torres-Quevedo
    3 Robinson's triumphs of style - Jack Baker

    Gender and environment
    4 The female orphan and an ecofeminist ethic-of-care in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Lila - Anna Maguire Elliott
    5 Souls all unaccompanied: Enacting feminine alterity in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping - Makayla Steiner
    6 The domestic geographies of grief: Bereavement, time and home spaces in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Home - Lucy Clarke

    Imagined histories: Race, religion, and rights
    7 Domesticating political feeling, affect and memory in Marilynne Robinson's Home - Christopher Lloyd
    8 'Onward Christian liberals': Marilynne Robinson's essays and the crisis of mainline Protestantism - Alexander Engebretson
    9 Presence in absence: The spectre of race in Gilead and Home - Emily Hammerton-Barry

    Robinson and her contemporaries
    10 'Everything can change': Civil rights, civil war and radical transformation in Home and Gilead - Tessa Roynon
    11 'A great admirer of American education': Robinson as professor and defender of 'America's best idea' - Steve Gronert Ellerhoff and Kathryn E. Engebretson
    12 Acknowledging a numinous ordinary: Marilynne Robinson and Stanley Cavell - Paul Jenner

    Epilogue - 'A little different every time': Accumulation and repetition in Jack - Rachel Sykes

    Editors

    Rachel Sykes is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary American Literature at the University of Birmingham

    Jennifer Daly is an independent researcher and Research Strategy Officer at Trinity College Dublin

    Anna Maguire Elliott is Senior Research Administrator at the University of Portsmouth

    Marilynne Robinson

    Edited by Rachel Sykes, Anna Maguire Elliott, Jennifer Daly

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