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142 results in Writers and their Work

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Iain Sinclair
  • Robert Sheppard
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 December 2007
  • A study of the fiction, documentary and poetry of Iain Sinclair, the connections between these writings, and the connection he makes between cultural phenomena and place.

Brian Friel

Carol Ann Duffy
  • Deryn Rees-Jones
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 June 2010
  • In 2009 Carol Ann Duffy became the first female Poet Laureate to much public acclaim. This study looks at Duffy's work from her early development and involvement with the Liverpool poets in the 1970s, through to her most recent collection. It concentrates on the way in which Duffy develops her use of the dramatic monologue and the love poem and traces her interest in surrealism and a tradition of European modernism. While acknowledging the importance of her popular appeal the book also makes a case for Duffy as a serious and important poet who engages with key issues of gender and identity in innovative and important ways. Deryn Rees-Jones places Duffy at the forefront of a change in poetry in Britain, and sees her as a writer who both heralds and opens up the way for those writing after her.

J.G. Farrell
  • John McLeod
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2020
    Print publication:
    30 April 2007
  • J.G. Farrell is a short and accessible critical study of a major post-war novelist best known for his work The Empire Trilogy.

Caryl Churchill
  • Elaine Aston
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 July 2010
  • The second edition of a comprehensive, accessible study of Caryl Churchill's theatre, detailing her feminism, socialism and experimental style.

Henry James
  • The Later Writing
  • Barbara Hardy
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 July 1995
  • A critical analysis of James later writing both the great novels and autobiography, travel and criticism.

Henry Fielding

J.R.R. Tolkien

Brian Patten

J.G. Ballard
  • Michel Delville
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2020
    Print publication:
    10 January 1998
  • This study offers an informed analysis of J.G. Ballard's achievements as a fiction writer and a commentator on contemporary culture.

James Joyce
  • Steven Connor
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    03 January 2020
    Print publication:
    20 February 2012
  • The works of James Joyce have long been regarded as central to European modernism. It is also clear what a continuing provocation and source of renewal Joyce's works are for contemporary cultural theory, especially feminism, post modernism and postcolonialism. This new edition of Steven Connor's book is an animated, accessible critique to the whole range of Joyce's work, from Dubliners through to Finnegans Wake. It contains a revised bibliography and critical evaluation, taking account of the ever-rowing corpus of literary criticism of Joyce and his work. Steven Connor is a foremost scholar of modern literature, and his book traces the leading concerns of Joyce's work with language, sexual and cultural identity, and the transforming experiences of modernity, and considers the relations between Joyce and postmodernity.

D. H. Lawrence
  • Linda R. Williams
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    05 December 2019
    Print publication:
    01 June 1997
  • In this new reading, Williams examines Lawrence's life in the context of his struggles with the dominant discourses of the day, and locates Lawrence's work as a site upon which debates around class, race and sexual identity should be discussed.

Charles Tomlinson

E. M. Forster

Edith Wharton
  • Janet Beer
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    05 December 2019
    Print publication:
    01 January 2001
  • Professor Beer's study provides an introduction to the whole range of Edith Wharton's work in the novel, short story, novella, travel writing, criticism and autobiography. The opening chapter provides an overview of recent scholarship in Wharton studies including an appraisal of biographical texts, and subsequent chapters treat recurrent themes and ideas in her fiction and non-fiction, and the American and European context of her work. The major novels, as well as those less well-known, are discussed as are: contemporary reception of her work, American responses to her expatriation, her friendships with the leading artists of her day, and the influence of the First World War on her work.

Edmund Spenser

Charlotte Bronte
  • Patsy Stoneman
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    05 December 2019
    Print publication:
    01 March 2011
  • Patsy Stoneman offers a comprehensive analysis of all Charlotte Brontë's novels, with a focus on power-relations in class and gender.

Arthur Hugh Clough
  • John Schad
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    05 December 2019
    Print publication:
    01 October 2005
  • Swinburne called him a bad poet, Tennyson called him dull, Saintsbury called him thin. John Schad celebrates Clough the anti-poet, a loving laureate of the extraordinary dull, who is so thin we can see through, or beyond him. Clough, argues Schad, never gets in the way of the world, or worlds, of which he writes. And these worlds are many: ranging from the orthodox world of the Anglican Oxford that Clough famously abandons, through the turbulent worlds of Paris and Rome that Clough visits in the wake of the revolutionary events of 1848, to the quietly desperate world of Clough's final years. For Schad, though, Clough's defining world is the very strange world of continental thought, a world which makes him a most un-Victorian Victorian.

Doris Lessing
  • Elizabeth Maslen
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    05 December 2019
    Print publication:
    31 August 2014
  • This new edition of Elizabeth Maslen's successful study covers the full range of Doris Lessing's work and explores in detail both its form and content. From The Grass is Singing (1950) through to Alfred and Emily (2008) her main concerns are shown to have a remarkable continuity, both in her commitment to political and cultural issues and in her explorations of inner space. Her experiments with form are closely analysed, and her bold exposure of jargon, cliché, and the manipulative power of language is demonstrated. While she can be seen as part of the great diasporaic influx that followed World War Two her experimentations with form blend in with the explorations of realism taking place in much British fiction from the early years of the twentieth century. This is a concise, accessible, but scholarly book, offering both perceptive critical insights and a valuable up-to-date bibliography.

Edward Bond
  • Michael Mangan
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    05 December 2019
    Print publication:
    01 January 1998
  • This study show the ways in which Edward Bond's explores the most pressing political, ethical and social questions of our culture.

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