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A substantial addition to Spark criticism, of which there has been surprisingly little published in recent years.
Book Details
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Spark as Scottish and World Author
Chapter 1. "Fully to Savour Her Position": Muriel Spark and Scottish Identity
Chapter 2. "The Magazine That Is Considered the Best in the
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Spark as Scottish and World Author
Chapter 1. "Fully to Savour Her Position": Muriel Spark and Scottish Identity
Chapter 2. "The Magazine That Is Considered the Best in the World": Muriel Spark and the New Yorker
Part II: Situating Spark in Postwar Culture
Chapter 3. Muriel Spark and the Metaphysics of Modernity: Art, Secularization, and Psychosis
Chapter 4. Muriel Spark and the Meaning of Treason
Chapter 5. Reading Spark in the Age of Suspicion
Chapter 6. Stylish Spinsters: Spark, Pym, and the Postwar Comedy of the Object
Part III: Reading Spark
Chapter 7. The Mandelbaum Gate: Muriel Spark's Apocalyptic Gag
Chapter 8. "Her Lips Are Slightly Parted": The Ineffability of Erotic Sociality in Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat
Chapter 9. "Look for One Thing and You Find Another": The Voice and Deduction in Muriel Spark's Memento Mori
Chapter 10. Matters of Care and Control: Surveillance, Omniscience, and Narrative Power in The Abbess of Crewe and Loitering with Intent
Appendix: A Bibliography of Recent Criticism on Muriel Spark
Contributors
Index