Theorising Muriel Spark

ELEANOR BYRNE Lecturer in English, Manchester Metropolitan UniversityBRYAN CHEYETTE Professor of English and Judaic Studies, University of SouthamptonHELENE CIXOUS Director of Studies, Centre d'Etudes Feminines, Universite de Paris VIIIPATRICIA DUNCKER Senior Lecturer in English, University of Wales (Aberystwyth)ALAN FREEMAN Lecturer in British Literature and Literary Theory, Yeditepe University, IstanbulJEREMY IDLE Lecturer in English, Nene University CollegeWILLY MALEY Professor of Renaissance Literature, University of GlasgowJUDITH ROOF Professor of English and Film Studies, Ann Arbour University, MichiganNICHOLAS ROYLE Professor of English Literature, University of SussexSUSAN SELLERS Professor of English Literature, University of St AndrewsJULIAN WOLFREYS Associate Professor of English, University of Florida

• Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: 'I Don't Know Anything About Freud: Muriel Spark Meets Contemporary Criticism; M.McQuillan PART I: GENDER Tales of Love: Narcissism and Idealization in The Public Image; S.Sellers The Future Perfect's Perfect Future: Spark's and Duras's Narrative Drive; J.Roof The Suggestive Spectacle: Queer Passions in Bronte's Villette and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; P.Duncker In Bed with Muriel Spark: Mourning, Metonymy and Autobiography; M.McQuillan PART II: RACE Writing Against Conversion: Muriel Spark the Gentile Jewess; B.Cheyette Muriel Spark Shot in Africa; E.Byrne A Bit of the Other: Symposium , Futility and Scotland; A.Freeman PART III: DECONSTRUCTION Muriel Spark's Uselessness; J.Idle Muriel Spark's Mary Shelley : A Gothic and Liminal Life; J.Wolfreys Not to Deconstruct? Righting and Deference in Not to Disturb: W.Maley Memento Mori: N.Royle PART IV: APPENDICES Grimacing Catholicism: Muriel Spark's Macabre Farce: Muriel Spark's Latest Novel: The Public Image; H.Cixous 'The Same Informed Air: An Interview with Muriel Spark' A Muriel Spark Bibliography: Primary and Secondary Sources Index

'...these diverse and engaging essays offer much-needed depth and substance to Spark criticism...Highly recommended...' - S.Pathak, Choice