This Life, This World: New Essays on Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Gilead, and Home

The first book devoted entirely to Robinson familiarizes readers with the major currents in her thought from a diversity of perspectives--Romanticism, ecocriticism, medicine and literature, religion and literature, theology, American Studies, critical race theory, and feminist and gender studies--that reflects the amplitude and fecundity of Robinson's art and thought.

Jason W. Stevens has taught at Harvard University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and he has been a fellow of the National Humanities Center (Durham, NC). His work focuses on mid-late 20th century American literature and U. S. cultural and intellectual history, with emphases on the intersections of fiction, popular culture, religion, and ethnicity. His first book was God-Fearing and Free: A Spiritual History of America's Cold War (Harvard University Press 2010). His writings have also appeared in boundary 2, American Literature, Literature/Film Quarterly, and The Immanent Frame. In 2014-2015, he is a fellow at the Center for the Humanities, University of Pittsburgh, where he is completing a book project on American film noir .