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Forgiveness in Victorian Literature - Grammar, Narrative, and Community (Hardcover)
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Forgiveness in Victorian Literature - Grammar, Narrative, and Community (Hardcover)
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. In novels, poems, and essays, Richard
Gibson here 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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