Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 'None Left but by Submission': Paradise Lost and the Genesis of Reconciliation; 3 'Ask Her Forgiveness?' Reconciliation, Power and Grace in Shakespeare; 4 'Pray Your Honour Forgive Me!': Hierarchical Forgiveness from Pamela to Bleak House; 5 'The Apathy of the Stars': Impersonal Reconciliation in To the Lighthouse and Ulysses; 6 'Not Quite Not Yet': History, Forgiveness and the Literary Imagination in Disgrace and Atonement

7 'The Prairie Still Shines like Transfiguration': Forgiveness, Theology and Politics in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead NovelsNotes; Bibliography; Index