- Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 173 pages)
- Uniform Title
- Forsaken son (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Forsaken son (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- "Rachel weeping" : atonement theology and forsaken children -- Cross as murder, cross as wound : recent developments in atonement theology and trauma theory -- "Forgotten by God" : Flannery O'Connor and Orthodox infanticide -- "God descended to suffer with us" : John Updike's search for a sensitive atonement -- "People who die bad don't stay in the ground" : surrogacy and atonement in Beloved -- "You are crucified too" : Joyce Carol Oates, atonement, and human behavior -- "Consubstantial monstrosity," "grim triune" : outer dark and divine child murder -- Afterword post-traumatic Christianity.
- LCCN
- 2016007589
- OCLC
- ssj0001678725
- Author
Pederson, Joshua.
- Title
The forsaken son [electronic resource] : child murder and atonement in modern American fiction / Joshua Pederson.
- Imprint
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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