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By focusing on a number of significant moments in the interlocking histories of the book's two central concepts - literature and consolation - this study makes readers aware of the premises that underlie the assumption that literary writings can bring comfort. What is it in literary texts that provides this special experience? How does literature help us to understand what consolation means and the effects it can have on individual readers? The intersecting ideas of literature and consolation in Homer, Dante, Shakespeare and Flaubert through to Roland Barthes, Denise Riley and Julian Barnes, guide today's readers on how literature provides examples, food for thought and good companionship in times of grief and pain.

Consolation in literature. --- Literature and society. --- Reading, Psychology of.

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Consolation in literature. --- Classical literature --- History and criticism.

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Classical literature --- Consolation in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Italian literature --- Consolation in literature --- Bereavement in literature --- History and criticism

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"In this monograph, Alex W. Muir shows how Paul and Seneca were significant contributors to an ancient philosophical and rhetorical tradition of consolation. Each writer's consolatory career is surveyed in turn through close readings of key primary texts: chiefly Seneca's three literary consolations and 'Epistles'; and Paul's letters, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Corinthians, and Philippians. A final comparative dialogue highlights the pair's adaptations and innovations within this tradition"--

Consolation in the Bible --- Consolation in literature --- Latin prose literature --- Paul, - the Apostle, Saint --- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, - approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D --- Paul, the Apostle, Saint --- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D --- History and criticism --- Paul --- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Consolation in the Bible. --- Consolation in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Paul, --- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, --- Bible.