"The dear ordinary": The novels of Marilynne Robinson

Title: "The dear ordinary": The novels of Marilynne Robinson
Identifier: d_2009_2013:14e2deeb500a:11776
identifier: 12450
Creator: Engebretson, Alexander John,
Contributor: Gerhard Joseph
Date: 2013
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: American literature | Calvin | Gilead | Home | Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson
Abstract: This dissertation is a critical study of contemporary U.S. writer Marilynne Robinson with a focus on her three novels Housekeeping (1981), Gilead (2004), and Home (2009). The purpose of my study is to provide the first comprehensive interpretation and analysis of her literary output and to establish the contexts---biographical, literary, intellectual, religious, and political---which illuminate and inspire her work. In addition to offering detailed readings of each of her novels, my study engages a variety of questions prompted by her work, including questions of regional and religious identity, the intersection of fiction and non-fiction, landscape and environmental ethics, the imagination of subjectivity, and race and gender politics. By focusing solely on Marilynne Robinson, my dissertation offers a holistic understanding of an underappreciated author and makes an implicit argument for her exceptional value as a U.S. novelist and as an object for future scholarship.
Type: dissertation
Source: 2009_2013.csv
degree: Ph.D.
Program: English