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142 results in Writers and their Work

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Thomas Hardy

John Betjeman
  • Dennis Brown
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    09 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 June 1999
  • The book reassesses the work of John Betjeman by drawing on the poet's unique gifts of lyricism, irony and empathy.

T.S. Eliot
  • Colin MacCabe
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    09 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 June 2006
  • T.S. Eliots's life took him from the United States to England, from philosophy to poetry and from modern scepticism to traditional Christianity. Colin MacCabe's study places Eliot's poetry in the context of these journeys and uses Eliot's life to illuminate his poetry. This poetry, although very modest in quantity, remains one of the great artistic triumphs of the English language. In his ironic accounts of adolescent desire in 'The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock' and 'Portrait of a Lady', he performs masculine self-doubt with a pathos and wit that has yet to be surpassed in poem, book or song. But these early poems can seem like mere exercises beside the astonishing achievements of 'Gerontion' and 'The Wasteland', poems which defined a generation and which broke the mould in English verse to allow a symphony of despairing voices to bear witness to the destruction in Europe. Finally, in 'Four Quartets' he forges an original form and a compelling tone to hymn both religious belief and national destiny as England faced defeat at the hands of Germany.

Victorian Quest Romance
  • Stevenson, Haggard, Kipling and Conan Doyle
  • Robert Fraser
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    09 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 June 1998
  • This book interprets the quest romances of Stevenson, Haggard, Kipling and Conan Doyle in the light of Victorian debates about buried human pasts.

V.S. Naipaul
  • Suman Gupta
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    09 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 June 1999
  • An up-to-date critical survey of all Naipaul's major work giving a cohesive view of his artistic development.

Vernon Lee
  • Sondeep Kandola
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    09 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 January 2011
  • This book is the first full-scale exploration of the fiction of one of the most influential women writing in English in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While Lee's work was well-admired in her own day, her fiction and her writings on aesthetics, 'The Woman in Question' and psychology appeared anachronistic to later twentieth-century audiences. The recent upsurge of interest in the culture of the fin de siècle and lesbian Modernist writing has assured Lee a well-deserved critical resurrection and this book explores her ground-breaking literary work in light of the turbulent friendships that she had with figures such as Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells and Virginia Woolf. A belle-lettriste, a self-consciously Continental intellectual and a pacifist, Lee's changing authorial masks doubly participate and anticipate the wider shift from Victorian earnestness to Modernist play marking British letters over the course of fifty years. Ultimately, however, Lee emerges as an increasingly isolated figure harried both by her attraction to other women and the incipient destruction of her beloved Europe in the 'Great Game' of Empire.

John Donne
  • Stevie Davies
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    09 January 2020
    Print publication:
    03 January 1994
  • An accessible introduction to the full range of Donne's poetry which challenges the assumptions of traditional readings of his work.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Paul Hamilton
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 June 2000
  • This book offers a new interpretation of Shelley's major writings in relation to key aesthetic, philosophical and political themes of his day.

G.K. Chesterton
  • Michael D. Hurley
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    20 February 2012
  • A revaluation of the vast and vastly varied work of G.K. Chesterton through a literary reading of his philosophy, and a philosophical reading of his fiction.

Philip Larkin
  • Laurence Lerner
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 January 2004
  • Philip Larkin is one of the finest English poets of our time. His poetic personality – nostalgic, wry, melancholy, ironic, witty and haunting – has appealed to a far wider audience than that of literary specialists, while also winning the respect of leading critics and fellow poets. Lerner's study relates poetry to Larkin's life, and to the literary and social environment of post-war Britain; discusses the Larkin persona, and Larkin's relation to literary criticism; and above all seeks to guide readers to a full appreciation of the power and subtlety of Larkin's best poems.

John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
  • Germaine Greer
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    30 March 2000
  • Written by a renowned scholar and broadcaster, this account of Wilmot's work strives to place it in its socio-political context and describe the way the poet and his work were co-opted after his premature death to serve contrasting political agendas.

Olive Schreiner
  • Carolyn Burdett
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 January 2005
  • Olive Schreiner, who was born in 1855 in South Africa, has become a central literary figure for thinking about the complex debates surrounding gender, imperialism and class between 1880 and 1920. Aesthetically bold and politically passionate, Schreiner wrote novels, short stories, lyrical fragments she called dreams, as well as non-fiction and political polemic. Her work is widely acknowledged as a significant, though unconventional, contribution to the 'New Woman' debates of the fin de siècle, while her anti-imperialism helped to challenge and reshape feminist thinking. This volume explores Schreiner's contribution to these debates, while also focusing on the shaping influence of both religion and science on her work. It discusses the range of her work, including her novels, The Story of an African Farm, Undine, and From Man to Man; her feminist tract Woman and Labour and short fictions and allegories about the position of women; and her diverse writings about South Africa, her country of birth.

Evelyn Waugh
  • Ann Pasternak-Slater
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 July 2016
  • Everyone knows how funny Evelyn Waugh is. One of his finest comic creations was his own increasingly rebarbative public persona – a self-confessed 'front of pomposity mitigated by indiscretion, that was as hard, bright and antiquated as a cuirass'. No wonder new biographies of Waugh are popular. The life and work cannot be separated. Gathered productively a he writer's desk are the chaotic and often bizarre details of Waugh's own life, what he called the 'adroit jigsaw' of his unobtrusively elegant aesthetic structures, and his moral coherence. This study shows how Waugh transformed his own experiences into painfully comic, brilliantly constructed novels. They are works, in his own words, of 'elegance and variety of contrivance'. Ann Pasternak Slater has written an ingenious and engaging study of the relationship between Waugh's life and work, between his sharp moral vision and Dionysiac comic genius. She focuses on Waugh's entire fictional oeuvre in a book notable for its intelligent sympathy

Elizabeth Taylor
  • N. H. Reeve
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 September 2008
  • A critical introduction to the work of the English novelist Elizabeth Taylor tracing some of her recurrent preoccupations – with memory, dispossession and bereavement, and with her generation's experience of wartime as both disruption and opportunity – and to highlight the ruthless wit with which she assaulted all forms of egotism and self-satisfaction.

English Translators of Homer
  • From George Chapman to Christopher Logue
  • Simeon Underwood
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    20 November 1997
  • This book is an account of English translations of Homer, set in the context of modern translation theory.

Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Cynthia F. Wong
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    15 May 2000
  • A new edition of the first full-length study of contemporary British writer Kazuo Ishiguro and his works, up to 2005. This book explores his uses of memory and its unreliability in narrative, his manipulations of desire and how humans 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 examines his subtle and ironic portrayals of people in emotional bereavement and it situates Ishiguro as an important international novelist by looking at his constructions of personal and political histories. Best known for the Booker Prize-winning and Merchant-Ivory film adaptation of The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro continues his formal experimentation in narrative voice with subsequent work and emphasises the necessary, yet futile, spirit that envelops many of his characters.

Leo Tolstoy
  • John Bayley
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    11 January 1996
  • A modern study by a distinguished and elegant critic of Tolstoy's most significant achievement in writing.

Fleur Adcock
  • Janet Wilson
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    13 December 2007
  • This study discusses Adcock as a writer who draws on her experiences of dislocation in order to position herself between cultures. Contrasting her work with that of the post-war British poetic mainstream with which she has been associated, it emphasises that the radically displaced feminised consciousness which negotiates the boundaries between self and other can be identified in Adcock's poetry as metonymic of resolving national and cultural differences. Wilson argues that displaced voices such as hers from white settler colonies like New Zealand now belong to multicultural Britain. Her close readings of Adcock's verse in terms of its ironic double vision focus on the blend of classical restraint, wit, and humour, in relation to her complex revaluation of the diasporic imaginary of the exile. Claiming that Adcock's personal mythology, based on her divided nationality and gendered consciousness, recalls writers like Jane Austen and her fellow expatriate, Katherine Mansfield, Wilson argues that the best of her work transcends the immediate problems of her age.

Norman MacCaig
  • Alasdair Macrae
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    01 January 2011
  • This study places Norman MacCaig in his literary and social contexts and conveys the intelligence, humour and surprise in his poetry.

Poets of the Second World War
  • Rory Waterman
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    07 January 2020
    Print publication:
    30 May 2015
  • An overview of the English-language poetry of the Second World War, focusing on five of the most remarkable poets of that conflict: Keith Douglas, Alun Lewis, Karl Shapiro, Sidney Keyes and Charles Causley.

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