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142 results in Writers and their Work

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Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Kate Flint
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    28 October 1994
  • A critical study showing Mrs Gaskell to be a radical and experimental writer as well as a perceptive social commentator.

Julius Caesar
  • Mary Hamer
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    06 January 1998
  • This study traces the connections that Shakespeare makes between ancient Roman culture and the structured thought and belief in Christian England of his own day.

Peter Ackroyd

Emily Bronte
  • Stevie Davies
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    25 September 1997
  • Stevie Davies' book explores the symphonic qualities of Wuthering Heights and establishes Emily Brontë intellectual stature.

Othello
  • Emma Smith
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    31 July 2005
  • Shakespeare's play of 1604 is marked from its outset by a doubleness in its very title 'Othello, or the Moor of Venice'. In this study Emma Smith teases out instances of doubleness, duplication and paradox to discuss the play's language and its themes.

Paul Scott
  • Jacqueline Banerjee
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 December 1998
  • Contrary to popular belief, Paul Scott was not a historical novelist in the realist tradition but a post-modernist who engaged with his readers in narrative of increasing self-consciousness and complexity. Having exposed the identity crisis of the twentieth-century male under army and post-war conditions, he moved on after the 1950’s to explore the need for commitment memorably and often brilliantly against various backdrops. This phase culminated in his most frankly experimental novel, The Corrida at San Feliu (1964). However, India, where Scott had served during the war, still exerted a strong pull on his imagination. And in his tour de forceThe Raj Quartet (1966-1975), and its coda, Staying On (1977; Booker Prize, 1978), Scott found in one of the great upheavals of recent times what he had long been seeking – evidence of human being’s capacity for moral integrity and love, even in the face of extraordinary challenges.

Margaret Atwood
  • Marion Wynne-Davies
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    05 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 December 2009
  • This book traces the chronological development of Atwood's global reputation from Canadian nationhood to world-wide politics and from the role of women to gender identity. Chapters offer a comprehensive overview of her poetry, novels, shorter fiction, children's books, criticism and experimental multi-genre work. There are more detailed analyses of Atwood's most influential writing, from her first novels such as Surfacing and The Edible Woman, through the works that ensured her international reputation such as The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye and The Robber Bride, to her most recent work, Alias Grace and Oryx and Crake. Wynne-Davies presents these works through an overall understanding of Atwood's intelligence, humour, linguistic dexterity, breadth of vision and ethical integrity.

Matthew Arnold
  • Kate Campbell
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    05 January 2020
    Print publication:
    30 April 2007
  • Poet, school inspector, civil servant and critic: this study examines the interrelationship of Arnold's different activities in tracing his evolution as a publicist to the publication of Culture and Anarchy in 1869. Kate Campbell shows how his critical concerns and attitudes first appear in his poetry and private writing, even though he reinterprets the 'immense task' of modern poetry as a critical programme. This book demonstrates in particular how his work in education leads to his use of indirect methods of political influence – methods that he has observed in politics, literature and journalism. As a publicist he uses such means to promote his objectives of culture and state. Accordingly, Matthew Arnold overturns the view of Arnoldian detachment as it argues his implication in the new cultural politics of the 1860s.

Laurence Sterne
  • Manfred Pfister
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    05 January 2020
    Print publication:
    11 January 2001
  • Despite the immense popularity of Laurence Sterne's work during his lifetime, his contribution to the novel form and experimentalism has only been acknowledged since his death. His contemporaries Richardson and Goldsmith denounced his archaic methods and took offence at his playful irreverence but his oddity is never accidental nor perverse; it is the strategy of an inventive, thoughtful, comic talent. Tristram Shandy, perhaps his best loved work, defies convention at every turn, distributing narrative content across a bafflingly idiosyncratic time-scheme interrupted by digressions, authorial comments and interferences with the printed fabric of the book. This comically fragmented story line is a reaction against the linear narratives of Fielding and Richardson; aiming instead at a realistic impressionism, a shape determined by the association of ideas. This study critiques Sterne's work in the light of modern literary theory, questioning whether he was an artist before his time.

Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Steve Ellis
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 March 1996
  • A study of Chaucer which embraces modern critical theory to provide a re-evaluation of the full range of his work.

Penelope Fitzgerald
  • Hugh Adlington
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    30 July 2018
  • 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.

Middleton and his Collaborators

Neil Gunn
  • J. B. Pick
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 December 2003
  • Neil Gunn is now generally accepted as the most significant novelist the Highlands of Scotland have produced. This study examines the scope and depth of his work and assesses him as a writer of European stature.

Muriel Spark
  • Bryan Cheyette
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    03 January 2000
  • Muriel Spark is widely considered to be one of the most gifted and innovative British novelists of her generation. Professor Cheyette's study is the first to explore her twenty novels as a whole and includes discussion of her short stories, poems and literary criticism.

Margaret Drabble
  • Glenda Leeming
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 October 2004
  • Margaret Drabble is a writer whose subject matter and technique have developed profoundly since the early sixties: this book draws together the different aspects of her narrative practice, and looks at the increasing flexibility of her narrative methods, both in terms of the kind of narrator used and in the structuring of plot events. The often distanced and ironic narration is discussed, and shown to reinforce Drabble's recurrent themes – themes that include the effect of early family influence and heredity on free choice, the inexorable pressure of social changes, and the role of accident in destabilizing the confident individual. In the later novels people move in a world where they and others may be victims of a callous society, but may equally be guilty of condoning or promoting society's worst trends. This study describes how narrative increasingly becomes ambiguous, offering then withholding support for the behaviour of the characters, and challenging the reader to think again.

George Meredith
  • Phyllis Bartlett
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 September 2012
  • This study analyses and contextualizes Meredith's more widely read works, bringing out both the scale of his achievement and his relevance for modern readers.

Macbeth
  • Kathleen E. McKluskie
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 September 2007
  • Using Shakespeare and Macbeth as a test case this book examines the idea of the writer and the writer's work. Kathleen McLuskie explores the structure and theatricality of Macbeth as well as addressing the way that it was constructed as a work by its publication in the 1623 Folio of Shakespeare's Works. The study goes on to examine the relationship between the work and the history of its creation and reception and concludes with an analysis of the role of the work in the imagined life of Shakespeare and assesses the relationship between the work and the writer in the 21st century culture. It is informed, but not driven by, recent literary theory, it is alert to the role of theatre, in both the early modern period and today, in reproducing Macbeth as a work and it builds on recent scholarship on the relationship between print and theatrical culture in the seventeenth century.

Kingsley Amis
  • Richard Bradford
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 June 1998
  • This is a study of the real Kingsley Amis, literary technician and popular storyteller; the most amusing serious novelist of contemporary fiction.

Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Jane Moore
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    02 January 1999
  • An introduction to Wollstonecraft's writing, examining her educational works, political treatises, novels and travel writing.

Marina Warner
  • Laurence Coupe
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    04 January 2020
    Print publication:
    31 August 2005
  • Warner is such a widely celebrated writer that it is a source of some wonderment that this is the first full-length study of her work. Warner is a novelist whose work is rooted in traditional forms such as legend, romance and fairy tale yet who is wholly contemporary in her thinking. This is a must read for students and fans alike.

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