Penelope Fitzgerald

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Av Hugh Adlington

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Penelope Fitzgerald (1916-2000) has been acclaimed as one of the finest British novelists of the late twentieth century. Four of her novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize and one of them, Offshore (1979), won; her final work of historical fiction, The Blue Flower (1995), won the US National Book Critics’ Circle Award. Fitzgerald’s works are distinguished by their acute wit, deft handling of emotional tone and an unsentimental yet deeply felt commitment to portraying the lives of those men, women and children ‘who seem to have been born defeated’. Admirers have long recognised the brilliance of Fitzgerald’s writing, yet the deceptive simplicity of her style invariably leads readers to ask, ‘How is it done?’ This book seeks to answer that question, providing the first sustained exposition of Penelope Fitzgerald’s compositional method, working both inwards from the surface of her writing and outwards from the archival evidence of Fitzgerald’s own drafts and working papers.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-07-30
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieWriters and Their Work
Antal sidor168
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9780746312940

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Hugh Adlington is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Birmingham where he teaches English Literature across all periods and genres. He is editor (with Peter McCullough and Emma Rhatigan) of The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon (2011) and editor (with Tom Lockwood and Gillian Wright) of Chaplains in Early Modern England: Literature, Patronage and Religion (2013). He is editing volume 2 of the Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne, and is writing a monograph, John Donne’s Books: Reading, Writing, and the Uses of Knowledge.

ContentsAcknowledgements ixBiographical Outline xiAbbreviations and References xiii Introduction 11 Critical Writing 92 Biographies 21Edward Burne-Jones 22The Knox Brothers 26Charlotte Mew and Her Friends 323 Early Novels 36The Golden Child 37The Bookshop 42Offshore 48Human Voices 54At Freddie’s 604 Late Novels 67Innocence 69The Beginning of Spring 78The Gate of Angels 87The Blue Flower 935 Short Stories, Poems, Letters 1016 Reputation and Influence 113Appendix: Uncollected and Unattributed Poems 118Notes 120Select Bibliography 132Index 143