Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

Contemporary British Women Writers

Narrative Strategies

  • Book
  • © 1993

Overview

Editors:
  1. Robert E. Hosmer

    1. Smith College, Northampton, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Sybille Bedford: A Paradise of Dainty Devices

    • Robert Owen Evans
    Pages 1-25

  3. Paradigm and Passage: The Fiction of Anita Brookner

    • Robert E. Hosmer Jr.
    Pages 26-54

  4. The Great Ventriloquist: A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance

    • Ann Hulbert
    Pages 55-65

  5. The Real Magic of Angela Carter

    • Walter Kendrick
    Pages 66-84

  6. The Strange Clarity of Distance: History, Myth, and Imagination in the Novels of Isabel Colegate

    • Brett T. Averitt
    Pages 85-104

  7. ‘Magic or Miracles’: The Fallen World of Penelope Fitzgerald’s Novels

    • Jean Sudrann
    Pages 105-127

  8. Enclosed Structures, Disclosed Lives: The Fictions of Susan Hill

    • Ernest H. Hofer
    Pages 128-150

  9. Sex, Snobbery and the Strategies of Molly Keane

    • Clare Boylan
    Pages 151-160

  10. Muriel Spark and the Oxymoronic Vision

    • Joseph Hynes
    Pages 161-187

  11. ‘See Me As Sisyphus, But Having A Good Time’: the Fiction of Fay Weldon

    • Jenny Newman
    Pages 188-211

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 212-214
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Contemporary British Women Writers is a collection of ten essays, each devoted to an important novelist and written by a distinguished scholar. Included in this volume are Sybille Bedford, Anita Brookner, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Isabel Colegate, Penelope Fitzgerald, Susan Hill, Molly Keane, Muriel Spark, and Fay Weldon. Each essay focuses on several novels, selected to reveal the novelist's consistent concerns and characteristic strategies. Individual bibliographies provide a full sense of the novelist's work as well as a discriminating guide to the best critical work available.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Smith College, Northampton, USA

    Robert E. Hosmer

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation