Marilynne Robinson is arguably one of the most important writers of our time. Her voice resonates across the richly imagined American landscapes within which she grounds her stories of love and loss, alienation and belonging, injustice and redemption. Robinson’s award-winning body of work—including Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award—has cultivated admiration all over the world, offering readers new and profound interpretations of the meanings of transience, presence, convention, and resistance.
In A Political Companion to Marilynne Robinson, Shannon L. Mariotti and Joseph H. Lane Jr. assemble both rising and established political theorists to explore the juxtaposition of Robinson’s nonfiction works and her novels, and to examine their connections to contemporary political issues. The collection analyzes Robinson’s writings on American democracy, community, and freedom, and it includes an engrossing interview with the author specifically conducted for this volume. From an exploration of the democratic potential in being a ‘housekeeper of homelessness’ to a study of models of action against racial injustice, this volume provides fascinating new insights into Robinson’s work and how it reflects and reassesses American political culture and theory.
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The Mystery of Experience: Marilynne Robinson’s Political Theory
The Housekeeper of Homelessness: The Democratic Ethos of Marilynne Robinson’s Novels and Essays
Our Home in the Wilderness: The American Experience with Wilderness and Frontier Democracy in Marilynne Robinson’s Fiction and Essays
Gilead’s Two Models of Action Against Racial Injustice
In Those Old Days:’ The Old and the Aging in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead and Home
Disabled and Dangerous’: The Individual and Society in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping
The Ministerial Exception
The Death of Jeremiah? Marilynne Robinson and Covenant Theology
Transcendence and Human Purpose: Marilynne Robinson and the Travails of Liberal Calvinism
The Romance of the Self: Marilynne Robinson’s Existential Humanism
Interview: Merism and the Mermaid in a Ship’s Cabin: A Conversation with Marilynne Robinson
Over de auteur
Shannon L. Mariotti, associate professor of political science at Southwestern University, is the author of Thoreau’s Democratic Withdrawal: Alienation, Participation, and Modernity and Adorno and Democracy: The American Years.
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