@inbook{17dfd105614441449a146cc0d5d0e6f5,
title = "Reprise or Resolution? A Would-Be Saint, and Robin Jenkins's Final Novel, The Pearl Fishers",
abstract = "Robin Jenkins has been read by most 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 novel{\textquoteright}s relationship with Jenkins{\textquoteright}s 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 Jenkins{\textquoteright}s work can be opened to wider theological and literary horizons than previously thought.",
keywords = "Realism, Romanticism, novel, Catholicism, Protestantism, saints , Christianity and culture, manuscripts",
author = "Linden Bicket",
year = "2017",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789004342491",
series = "Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature",
publisher = "Brill Academic Publishers",
pages = "219--237",
editor = "Linden Bicket and Douglas Gifford",
booktitle = "The Fiction of Robin Jenkins",
}