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This study investigates Louis MacNeice in two major central strands. Firstly, it explores MacNeice’s ambiguous positioning as an Irish poet. As the Ulster-born son of a Home Rule …
Nicholas Royle presents a new Forster – one that has emerged from the posthumous publication of his explicitly homosexual fiction (since 1971) and from new critical attention to …
Although much of Carter’s work is considered part of the contemporary canon, its true strangeness is still only partially understood. Lorna Sage argues that one key to a better …
This book offers a new introduction to Katherine Mansfield's short stories focusing on the question of the connection between life and writing in her work. This book offers a new …
Drawing on biographical information, letters, reminiscences and anecdotes, John Lucas pieces together Gurney’s difficult, indeed tragic life, in order to show that Gurney’s poetry, …
This study evaluates Kureishi’s contribution to contemporary British fiction; his screen plays, novels and plays evoke a multicultural London peopled by sexually liberated …
This study provides an engaging overview and clear analysis of the fiction, non-fiction and drama of African-American writer James Baldwin (1924-1987). Whilst giving close …
The works of James Joyce have long been regarded as central to European modernism. It is also clear what a continuing provocation and source of renewal Joyce’s works are for …
Since the publication of her debut novel The Country Girls in 1960, Edna O’Brien has experimented with an impressive range of forms and genres. Her most recent trilogy, completed …
Once regarded as a writer of dreamlike fantasies he is now seen through such books as The Trial as an expert guide to the all too real darknesses of the twentieth century.