Penelope Fitzgerald (Writers and Their Work)

Adlington, Hugh

Liverpool University Press（2018/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 168 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780746312940
• DDC分類 823.914

Full Description

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.

Contents

Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Biographical Outline xi

Abbreviations and References xiii

 

Introduction 1

1 Critical Writing 9

2 Biographies 21

Edward Burne-Jones 22

The Knox Brothers 26

Charlotte Mew and Her Friends 32

3 Early Novels 36

The Golden Child 37

The Bookshop 42

Offshore 48

Human Voices 54

At Freddie's 60

4 Late Novels 67

Innocence 69

The Beginning of Spring 78

The Gate of Angels 87

The Blue Flower 93

5 Short Stories, Poems, Letters 101

6 Reputation and Influence 113

Appendix: Uncollected and Unattributed Poems 118

Notes 120

 Select Bibliography 132

Index 143