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 The Prodigal Son in English and American Literature
Five Hundred Years of Literary Homecomings
The Parable of the Prodigal Son is one of the best-known stories in the Bible. It has captured the imagination of commentators, preachers and writers. Alison M. Jack explores the reconfiguring of the character of the Prodigal Son and his family in literature in English. She considers diverse literary periods and genres in which the paradigm is particularly prevalent, such as Elizabethan literature, the work of Shakespeare, the novels of female Victorian writers, the American short story tradition, novels focused on the lives of ordained ministers, and the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Iain Crichton Smith. Drawing on scholarship from biblical and literary studies, this study demonstrates the remarkable potency of the parable in generating new, and at times contradictory, meanings in different contexts. Historical and literary criticism are brought into dialogue to explore this remarkably resilient and nimble character as he dances through drama, novels and poetry across the centuries.

The Prodigal Son in English and American Literature Five Hundred Years of Literary Homecomings 1st Table of contents:

 1. Reading the Prodigal Son
The Prodigal Son in biblical studies
The Prodigal Son in literary studies
Conclusion
2. The Prodigal Son in Elizabethan Literature
The influence of Roman comedies
The Prodigal as rebellious son
Maintaining the status quo
Admonition and edification
Rebellion
Repentance
Conclusion
3. The Prodigal Son and Shakespeare
Prodigal Son references in Shakespeare’s plays
Shakespeare’s Bible
Shakespeare’s exegesis
The Prodigal Prince Hal
The Prodigal King Lear
Conclusion
4. Female Victorian Novelists and the Prodigal Son
The Bible in Adam Bede
The Bible in North and South
The Bible in Kirsteen
The Prodigal Son in Adam Bede
The Prodigal Son in North and South
The Prodigal Son in Kirsteen
Conclusion
5. The American Short Story and the Prodigal Son
The American short story tradition
The Prodigal Son in nineteenth-century short stories: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and Bret Harte
The Prodigal Son in Henry James’s ‘The Jolly Corner’
The Prodigal Son in twentieth-century short stories: Willa Cather and Thomas Wolfe
Conclusion
6. Prodigal Ministers in Fiction
J. G. Lockhart’s Adam Blair
James Robertson’s The Testament of Gideon Mack
Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead
Home in Gideon Mack and Gilead
Being lost and found in Adam Blair and Gideon Mack
Conclusion
7. The Prodigal Son in Poetry: Elizabeth Bishop and Iain Crichton Smith
Elizabeth Bishop: context
Iain Crichton Smith: context
Elizabeth Bishop: religious context
Iain Crichton Smith: religious context
Robinson Crusoe as Prodigal Son
Conclusion
8. Conclusion
Identifying the Prodigal Son
The Prodigal Son in literature: a review of findings
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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