Description
The study begins with Housekeeping, Robinson's haunting debut novel, which undertakes a feminist revision of the Western genre. Twenty-four years later Robinson began a literary project that would bring her national recognition, three novels set in a small, rural Iowa town. The first was Gilead, which took up the major American themes of race, the legacy of the Civil War, and the tensions between secular and religious lives. Two more Gilead novels followed, Home and Lila, both of which display Robinson's gift for capturing the mysterious dynamics of sin and grace.
In Understanding Marilynne Robinson, Engebretson also reviews her substantial body of non-fiction, which demonstrates a dazzling intellectual range, from the contemporary science-religion debates, to Shakespeare, to the fate of liberal democracy. Throughout this study Engebretson makes the argument for Marilynne Robinson as an essential, deeply unfashionable, visionary presence within today's literary scene.
About the Author
Alex Engebretson is a lecturer in American Literature at Baylor University. He earned his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Engebretson is the author of articles published in Western American Literature Journal, MidAmerica, and Southwestern American Literature.
Book Information
ISBN 9781643360775
Author Alexander John Engebretson
Format Paperback
Page Count 168
Imprint University of South Carolina Press
Publisher University of South Carolina Press
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm