BRITISH WRITERS, Supplement VIII

British Writers: Supplement VIII
By Jay Parini
Number Of Pages: 536
Publication Date: 2008-11-20
ISBN-10: 0684806568
ISBN-13: 9780684806563

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.

Subjects in Supplement VIII:

SIMON ARMITAGE by Brian Henry
ALAN BENNETT by Fred Bilson
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON by Susan Balée
BARBARA COMYNS by Julie Hearn
WENDY COPE by Gerry Cambridge
A. E. COPPARD by N. S. Thompson
FRANCES CORNFORD by Philip Hobsbaum
WILLIAM DUNBAR by Sandie Byrne
ROBERT GREENE by Daniel Brayton
SARAH KANE by Philip Parry
MICHAEL LONGLEY by John Redmond
JAMES MACPHERSON by Scott Ashley
CHARLES ROBERT MATURIN by Melissa Knox-Raab
NGŨGĨ WA THIONG’O by J. Roger Kurtz
OLD NORSE LITERATURE by Paul Bibire
T. F. POWYS by Philip Hobsbaum
PETER READING by Robert Potts
GEORGE RUSSELL (AE) by Joseph Lennon
W. G. SEBALD by Judith Kitchen
CHRISTOPHER WALLACE-CRABBE by Andrew Zawacki