Richard Hughes Gibson is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Wheaton College, USA.

In working out that the past cannot be erased or forgotten, but that psychological healing is possible through both extraordinary and everyday acts, Gibson’s incisive analysis of the plot arcs of Victorian fiction casts light on more modern quests for effective reconciliatory processes.

• PrefaceAcknowledgements1 Introduction: Grammar, Narrative, and Community2 Dickens and Forgiveness in 1846: Liberality and Liability3 Forgiving in Community: Trollope’s The Vicar of Bullhampton and Eliot’s Adam Bede4 Forgiving in the Nineties: Hardy’s Jude the Obscure and Wilde’s De ProfundisBibliographyIndex

Richard Hughes Gibson is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Wheaton College, USA.

In working out that the past cannot be erased or forgotten, but that psychological healing is possible through both extraordinary and everyday acts, Gibson’s incisive analysis of the plot arcs of Victorian fiction casts light on more modern quests for effective reconciliatory processes.

• PrefaceAcknowledgements1 Introduction: Grammar, Narrative, and Community2 Dickens and Forgiveness in 1846: Liberality and Liability3 Forgiving in Community: Trollope’s The Vicar of Bullhampton and Eliot’s Adam Bede4 Forgiving in the Nineties: Hardy’s Jude the Obscure and Wilde’s De ProfundisBibliographyIndex

Richard Hughes Gibson is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Wheaton College, USA.

In working out that the past cannot be erased or forgotten, but that psychological healing is possible through both extraordinary and everyday acts, Gibson’s incisive analysis of the plot arcs of Victorian fiction casts light on more modern quests for effective reconciliatory processes.

• PrefaceAcknowledgements1 Introduction: Grammar, Narrative, and Community2 Dickens and Forgiveness in 1846: Liberality and Liability3 Forgiving in Community: Trollope’s The Vicar of Bullhampton and Eliot’s Adam Bede4 Forgiving in the Nineties: Hardy’s Jude the Obscure and Wilde’s De ProfundisBibliographyIndex