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Forgiveness in Victorian literature : grammar, narrative, and community

Title
Forgiveness in Victorian literature : grammar, narrative, and community / Richard Hughes Gibson.
Author
Gibson, Richard Hughes
Publication
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

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Description
xiv, 169 pages; 23 cm.
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.
Series Statement
New directions in religion and literature
Uniform Title
New directions in religion and literature.
Subject
  • English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Forgiveness in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-165) and index.
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.
Call Number
JFD 15-1114
ISBN
  • 1780937113
  • 9781780937113
  • 9781474222198 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781474222204 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
869437800
Author
Gibson, Richard Hughes, author.
Title
Forgiveness in Victorian literature : grammar, narrative, and community / Richard Hughes Gibson.
Publisher
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
New directions in religion and literature
New directions in religion and literature.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-165) and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 15-1114
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