British Writers Supplement II

British Writers Supplement II
By George Stade
Number Of Pages: 672
Publication Date: 1991
ISBN-10 by ASIN: 0684192144
ISBN-13 by EAN: 9780684192147

British Writers, Volume 1-8 (vol.8 is an index to volumes 1-7), is a collection of critical essays covering writers who have made significant contributions to British, Irish, and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day. The contributors analyze many individual works and engage the reader with their distinctive themes and stylistic. Introductory essays and chronological tables open each volume and provide historical background.

The goal of the supplements has been consistent with the original idea of the series: to provide clear, informative essays aimed at the general reader. These essays often rise to a high level of craft and critical vision, but they are meant to introduce a writer of some importance in the history of British or Anglophone literature, and to provide a sense of the scope and nature of the career under review.


List of Subjects in Supplement II

KINGSLEY AMIS by John Richetti 1
JOHN ARDEN by David Graver 21
MAX BEERBOHM by Robert Viscusi 43
BRENDAN BEHAN by David Galef 61
ELIZABETH BOWEN by Siobhdn Kilfeather 77
SAMUEL BUTLER by Robert Casillo 97
AGATHA CHRISTIE by Robin W. Winks 123
NOEL COWARD by Jeffrey Kindley 139
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE by Bernard Benstock 159
WILLIAM EMPSON by Michael Wood 179
RONALD FIRBANK by Ralph C Boettcher 199
NADINE GORDIMER by Rob Nixon 225
HENRY GREEN by Barbara Brothers 247
SEAMUS HEANEY by Gregory A. Schirmer 267
T. E. LAWRENCE by Stanley Weintraub 283
JOHN LE CARRE by George J. Leonard 299
FLANN O'BRIEN by Joseph Devlin 321
ALAN PATON by Randy Malamud 341
BARBARA PYM by Mason Cooley 363
JEAN RHYS /Judith Kegan Gardiner 387
I. A. RICHARDS by John Paul Russo 405
OLIVE SCHREINER by Anne McClintock 435
STEVIE SMITH by Suzanne Fox 459
STEPHEN SPENDER by David Adams Leeming 481
LYTTON STRACHEY by Michael Rosenthal 497
J. R. R. TOLKIEN by Karl Kroeber 519