Reprise or Resolution? A Would-be Saint and Robin Jenkinsâs Final Novel, The Pearl Fishers

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004342491_015

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Robin Jenkins has been read by critics primarily as a social realist, who departs from the mysticism of his Scottish Literary Renaissance forebears most obviously in his urban depictions of contemporary working-class Lanarkshire life. A new reading of A Would-Be Saint (1978) and this novelâs relationship with Jenkinsâs later The Pearl Fishers (2007) recoups an understanding of this novelist as deeply influenced by both the religious environment of his youth, and by eighteenth-century Romanticism. This new reading suggests that Jenkinsâs work can be opened to wider theological and literary horizons than previously thought.

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The Fiction of Robin Jenkins

Some Kind of Grace

Series:Â SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature, Volume: 26Â andÂ SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature Online, Volume: 26

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004342491

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2017

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