Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene

Darren J. N. Middleton (Ph.D., The University of Glasgow, Scotland) is Professor of Literature and Theology at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. He is the author of three books, including Theology after Reading: Christian Imagination and the Power of Fiction (Baylor University Press, 2008), as well as four edited volumes on religion, literature and film. Dermot Gilvary was the director of the Graham Greene International Festival, now in its fourteenth year. He teaches English language and literature at Oakham School, Rutland, England, UK. He is a playwright and the editor of Dr. Brigitte Timmermann's The Third Man's Vienna (Shippen Rock, Vienna, 2005). David Lodge, CBE, is a novelist and academic. He has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for Small World in 1984 and for Nice Work in 1988), and was the recipient of the Whitbread Book of Year Award (for How Far Can You Go? in 1980) and the Hawthornden Prize (for Changing Places in 1975). Monica Ali is a British novelist. She is the author of Brick Lane, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2003, Alentejo Blue and In the Kitchen: A Novel.

• "Foreword."; David Lodge; "Introduction."; Mark Bosco, S. J. and Dermot Gilvary; 1. "Stamboul Train: The Timetable for 1932."; David R.A. Pearce; 2. "'Ghost on the Rooftops': How Joseph Conrad Haunted Graham Greene."; Cedric Watts. 3. "The Making of the Outsider in the Short Stories of the 1930s."; Rod Mengham; 4. "The Riddles of Graham Greene: Brighton Rock Revisited."; Francois Gallix; 5. "'Innocence and Experience: The Condition of Childhood in Graham Greene's Fiction."; Peter Hollindale; 6. "Janiform Greene: Paradoxes and Pleasures of The Power and the Glory."; Cedric Watts; 7. "Sigmund Freud and Graham Greene in Vienna."; Brigitte Timmermann; 8. "Going Especially Careful: Language Reference in Graham Greene."; David Crystal; 9. "Prophecy and Comedy in Havana: Graham Greene's Spy Fiction and Cold War Reality."; Christopher Hull; 10. "Graham Greene and A Burnt-out Case: A Psychoanalytic Reading"; Michael Brearley; 11. "A Touch of Evolutionary Religion."; Darren J. N. Middleton; 12. "Inside and Outside: Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh."; Robert Murray Davis; 13. "The Long Wait for Aunt Augusta: Reflections on Graham Greene's Fictional Women."; Judith Adamson; 14. "Graham Greene and Alfred Hitchcock."; Mike Hill; 15. "The Plays of Graham Greene."; Michael Billington; 16. "Graham Greene and Charlie Chaplin."; Neil Sinyard; 17. "The Later Graham Greene: From Modernist to Moralist". Frances McCormack; "Afterword: Reading Graham Greene in the Twenty-First Century"; Monica Ali; For Further Reading; Websites Relating to Graham Greene; Contributors; Index.

"Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene brings together some of the most innovative contemporary research on an essential modern author. Among the many topics addressed in this book are Greene's relations with his friend and contemporary Evelyn Waugh, the influence of Conrad on his works, his portrayal of women in fiction, the importance of psychoanalysis in understanding his works, and the surprising background of Stamboul Train. This highly readable collection presents essays by a group of established scholars, but also introduces the work of newcomers. Full of vitality and insight, Dangerous Edges will become indispensable to both scholars and aficionados." -- Richard Greene, Professor of English, University of Toronto, Canada, and editor of Graham Greene: A Life in Letters (London: Little, Brown, 2007; New York: W. W. Norton, 2008).