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142 results in Writers and their Work

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Kazuo Ishiguro
  • 3rd edition
  • Cynthia F. Wong
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 October 2022
    Print publication:
    04 March 2019
  • In 2017 the Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Kazuo Ishiguro, 'who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world'. Cynthia Wong's classic study first appeared in 2000 and is now updated in an expanded third edition that analyses all of Ishiguro's remarkable novels and one short story collection. From his eloquent trilogy - A Pale View of Hills, An Artist of the Floating World, and The Remains of the Day - to the astonishing speculative fiction, Never Let Me Go, and the ambitious fable-like story from pre-Mediaeval times, The Buried Giant, Wong appraises Ishiguro's persistently bold explorations and the narrative perspectives of his troubled characters. A compassionate author, Ishiguro examines the way that human beings reinterpret worlds from which they feel estranged. All of his works are eloquent expressions of people struggling with the silence of pain and the awkward stutters of confusion and loss. This book analyses his subtle and ironic portrayals of people in 'emotional bereavement' and it situates Ishiguro as an empathetic international writer.

Iris Murdoch
  • Anne Rowe
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    08 July 2020
    Print publication:
    31 May 2019
  • Iris Murdoch was both a popular and intellectually serious novelist, whose writing life spanned the latter half of the twentieth century. A proudly Anglo-Irish writer who produced twenty-six best-selling novels, she was also a respected philosopher, a theological thinker and an outspoken public intellectual. This thematically based study outlines the overarching themes that characterise her fiction decade by decade, explores her unique role as a British philosopher-novelist, explains the paradoxical nature of her outspoken atheism and highlights the neglected aesthetic aspect of her fiction, which innovatively extended the boundaries of realist fiction. While Iris Murdoch is acknowledged here as a writer who vividly evokes the zeitgeist of the late twentieth century, she is also presented as a figure whose unconventional life and complex presentation of gender and psychology has immense resonance for twenty-first-century readers.

Revolutionary Women Writers
  • Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams
  • Angela Keane
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    16 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 January 2013
  • In the 1790s, when Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams were at the peak of their critical reputations, they were known to each other and often cited together approvingly. It was Smith who provided the young William Wordsworth with a letter of introduction to Williams when he visited France in 1791 (though she had left by the time he got there). By the end of the decade Smith and Williams were being cited together more pejoratively, as two of a number of women who came to stand for the amoral, sexually suspect and politically naïve English 'Jacobins,' who were vilified in the conservative press. Neither were in fact 'Jacobins,' but they were revolutionary. This book looks at how Smith and Williams earned such reputations and at the politics and poetics of the works that reveal Smith to be a self-constructed Romantic and Williams as a mistress of intimate disguise.

Edward Lear

W. B. Yeats
  • Edward Larrissy
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    16 January 2020
    Print publication:
    20 February 2015
  • This book not only introduces the reader to contemporary themes in Yeats criticism, but also provides a unified interpretation based on Yeats' ambivalent sense of identity as a nationalist conscious of the Anglo-Irish tradition from which he claimed descent.

W.H. Auden
  • Stan Smith
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    16 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 October 1995
  • A lucid introduction to a great poet of our century from an internationally recognised Auden expert.

Pre-Romantic Poetry
  • Vincent Quinn
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    16 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 August 2012
  • Focusing on poets such as Thomas Gray and William Cowper, Pre-Romantic Poetry investigates pastoral poetry and literary patronage in ways that shift prevailing notions of Eighteenth-Century and Romantic poetry.

William Golding
  • Kevin McCarron
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    11 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 June 2006
  • This new edition of Kevin McCarron's study includes a new chapter on Golding's posthumous book The Double Tongue, and so encompasses the whole of Golding's novels. This is a comprehensive study, questioning Lord of the Flies' status as Golding's most popular and important work and giving prominence to The Inheritors, Pincher Martin, The Spire and The Sea Trilogy. McCarron takes an interdisciplinary approach, placing particular emphasis on the anthropological perspective missing from most critical texts on Golding's writings. He also considers Golding's work from the perspective of a number of critical approaches, including the postcolonial discourse, offering readers an alternative to the standard liberal humanist approach. An in-depth evaluation of Golding's essays and travel journal provides new insight in the work of one of the 20th-century's greatest writers.

Working Class Fiction
  • from Chartism to Trainspotting
  • Ian Haywood
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    11 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 March 1996
  • A comprehensive introduction to working-class literature over the last 150 years showing how many of these texts have consistently challenged dominant literary, critical and social values. It combines an extensive survey and bibliography with a commitment to working-class writing as a vital area of literary study.

Women Writers of Children's Classics
  • Mary Montefiore
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    11 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 January 2008
  • A study of four major female 19th century children's writers: Juliana Ewing, Louisa Molesworth, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Edith Nesbit who projected onto posterity a halcyon image of Victorian childhood which, juxtaposed with their turbulent lives, reflected the contradictions and conflicts of the Victorian age.

Rosamond Lehmann
  • Judy Simons
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    11 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 December 2004
  • Rosamond Lehmann's first book, Dusty Answer (1927), with its scandalous subject matter, made her a literary celebrity at the age of twenty-seven. Seen as the voice of a new generation, she became the centre of an artistic circle that included W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Elizabeth Bowen. Lehmann's novels deal with the urgency of romance and the vicissitudes of young women in love, and depict the emotional rollercoaster of romance and the tortuous process of growing up more directly than any writer before her. This book locates Lehmann's fictional achievement in the context of her times and in particular describes its positioning within the turbulent period between two world wars and the changing aesthetic of modernity. It includes a penetrating critical analysis of each of the major works, drawing on previously unpublished private papers, including letters to family and friends. In this it provides fresh and original insights into one of the most celebrated English novelists of her age.

Salman Rushdie
  • Damian Grant
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    11 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 June 2012
  • An in-depth study of all of Rushdie's fiction to date, tracing the recurrence of his themes, the idiosyncracies of his style and the evolution of his fictional technique.

William Langland
  • "Piers Plowman"
  • Claire Marshall
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    11 January 2020
    Print publication:
    12 January 2000
  • A reappraisal of Piers Plowman in the light of current debates on the nature of language, self, society and forms of religious worship at the end of the Middle Ages.

W.G. Sebald

Robert Louis Stevenson
  • David Robb
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    11 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 December 2014
  • The book is a survey of the range and variety of Stevenson's fiction, from the start to the finish of his short career as a writer. It seeks to emphasise the originality, unexpectedness and liveliness of his stories, without seeking to impose any narrow interpretative slant.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wole Soyinka

Seamus Heaney
  • Andrew Murphy
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    11 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 August 2010
  • An accessible and wide-ranging study which sets Seamus Heaney's work within its poetic, political and social contexts.

Romeo and Juliet
  • Sasha Roberts
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    11 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 June 1998
  • This reading provides a cultural context of Romeo and Juliet, focusing on issues of gender and society, ritual and language.

Rudyard Kipling
  • Jan Montefiore
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    11 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 January 2008
  • This book argues that Kipling's writings, at once Victorian conservative and modernist subversive, preaching imperialist control yet speaking for subaltern races and classes, are fissured yet energised by their own contradictions.

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