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Forgiveness in Victorian Literature - Grammar, Narrative, and Community (Paperback)
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Forgiveness in Victorian Literature - Grammar, Narrative, and Community (Paperback)
Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature
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Forgiveness was a preoccupation of writers in the Victorian period,
bridging literatures highbrow and low, sacred and secular. Yet if
forgiveness represented a common value and language, literary
scholarship has often ignored the diverse meanings and practices
behind this apparently uncomplicated value in the Victorian period.
Forgiveness in Victorian Literature examines how eminent writers
such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Oscar
Wilde wrestled with the religious and social meanings of
forgiveness in an age of theological controversy and increasing
pluralism in ethical matters. Richard Gibson discovers unorthodox
uses of the language of forgiveness and delicate negotiations
between rival ethical and religious frameworks, which complicated
forgiveness's traditional powers to create or restore community
and, within narratives, offered resolution and closure. Illuminated
by contemporary philosophical and theological investigations of
forgiveness, this study also suggests that Victorian literature
offers new perspectives on the ongoing debate about the possibility
and potency of forgiving.
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