`This is a comprehensive and accessible study, a first-class resource for students, researchers and readers interested in Iris Murdoch's work and literary life.'---Bran Nicol, Reader in English, Unive
Literary Lives Founding Editor: Richard Dutton, Professor of English, Lancaster UniversityThis series offers stimulating accounts of the literary careers of the most admired and influential English-l
Linda Wagner-Martin brings a wealth of new information to this detailed portrait of Hemingway's life and work, now available for the first time in paperback. Emphasising his immense love of animals, t
James Woodress goes beyond previous biographers in drawing on some fifteen hundred letters, interviews, speeches, and reminiscences. He separates much fact from fiction and takes into account the eve
This Literary Life tells the story of Hemingway the writer by concentrating on four periods of his best work, shaped in part by study of the correspondence between him and his four wives--and in the c
This book charts the major events of Stoker's life, which included friendships with many of the major figures of the age and a high public profile as manager of Henry Irving's Lyceum, and maps them on
Despite all the biographical studies devoted to William Faulkner, there are still many fundamental contradictions in the way he is perceived. He has been described as a creator of worlds a la Dickens
Readings from literary works that re-construct a century of Cairo's changing social life.Unlike The Literary Atlas of Cairo, which focuses on the literary geopolitics of the cityscape, this companion
Mary Wollstonecraft's literary life exemplifies how many women of that time adopted print culture to bring about change. This study argues that Protestant society had traditionally sanctioned women's
In a career that lasted little more than a decade, Kate Chopin became well-known for stories set in the Creole and Acadian regions of Louisiana, but her masterwork, The Awakening (1899), told the dari
A new biographical study by a leading scholar in the field, concentrating on Blake's literary achievement but also discussing the symbolic nature of his art.
This volume explores Graham Greene's literary career. Among other things, it explores his motives for writing; the literary and cinematic influences that shaped his work; his writing routine and the
"Dylan Thomas: A Literary Life offers an accurate and unsensationalized account of the poet's life in the context of British and American literary culture in the first half of the twentieth century, a
