BRITISH WRITERS, Supplement 9

British Writers: Supplement 9
By Jay Parini
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: 2009-08-25
ISBN-10: 0684312379
ISBN-13: 9780684312378

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 IX:

CAROLINE BLACKWOOD by Richard Davenport-Hines
NORMAN CAMERON by Helena Nelson
CHRISTOPHER CAUDWELL by Robert Sullivan
BRUCE CHATWIN by Thomas Wright
ANNE FINCH by Tom Jones
ALASDAIR GRAY by Gavin Miller
DERMOT HEALY by Amanda Fields
REGINALD HILL by John Lennard
PATRICK McCABE by James P. Austin
BRIAN MOORE by Robert Sullivan
EDWIN MORGAN by Chris Jones
MARY RENAULT by Nikolai Endres
RUTH RENDELL by Rebecca Berg
IAIN CHRICHTON SMITH by Gerry Cambridge
EMMA TENNANT by Jennifer E. Dunn
JOHN TREVISA by Jane Beal
DENTON WELCH by David Breithaupt
CHARLES WALTER STANSBY WILLIAMS by Charles Robert Baker