William Trevor

Paul Delaney is Lecturer in Irish Writing in English at Trinity College, DublinMichael Parker is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Central Lancashire

• Introduction Paul Delaney and Michael ParkerPart One1. Learnt by heart: William Trevor and reading – Hermione Lee 2. In another country: aspects of Trevor’s England – George O’Brien 3. ‘Compassion thrown to the winds’: William Trevor and postcolonial London – C.L. Innes4. ‘The battlefield has never quietened’: political violence in the fiction of William Trevor – Elmer Kennedy-Andrews5. William Trevor’s screen fictions: ‘No interest. Not suitable for treatment’ – Lance PettittPart Two6. The Ireland that we dreamed of?: ‘The Ballroom of Romance’ – Tina O’Toole 7. ‘Moments and subtleties and shadows of grey’: reflections on the narrative mode of Fools of Fortune Michael O'Neill 8. ‘Bid me strike a match and blow’: The Silence in the Garden Derek Hand 9. The tragedy of the return of history: ‘Lost Ground’ Jennifer M. Jeffers 10. The power of withholding: politics, gender and narrative technique in Felicia’s Journey – Michael Parker 11. ‘... as if she were a symbol of something ...’: The Story of Lucy Gault – Tom Herron 12. ‘The art of the glimpse’: Cheating at Canasta Paul Delaney 13. Character, community and critical nostalgia: Love and Summer – Heidi Hansson Bibliography and filmography Index