British Writers

by Parini, Jay; Gale Group

• ISBN13: 9780684806419
• ISBN10: 068480641X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Charles Scribners Sons/Reference

Summary

The Scribner Writers Series has set the standard for literary reference for more than 25 years. In addition to addressing the lives and careers of important writers, the articles discuss the themes and styles of major works and place them in pertinent historical, social and political contexts for today's readers. Novelists, playwrights, essayists, poets, short story writers, and more recently, genre writers in science fiction and mystery, are all expertly discussed in the more than 16 sets comprising this series.

This collection of essays covers 286 writers who have made contributions to British, Irish and Commonwealth literature from the 14th century to the present day. Introductory essays and chronological tables open each volume and provide historical background.

This Supplement adds 25 writers to this acclaimed series. Among the authors in this volume are: Richard Aldington, A. Alvarez, Wilkie Collins, Radclyffe Hall, Nancy Mitford, Liam O'Flaherty, Kenneth Tynan and many others.

Table of Contents

Contents	xi
Introduction	xiii
Chronology	xv
List of Contributors	lv
Subjects in Supplement VI
Peter Ackroyd	1	(16)
Thomas Wright
Beryl Bainbridge	17	(12)
Patricia Craig
Beowulf	29	(16)
Paul Bibere
Andre Brink	45	(16)
Robert Niemi
George Mackay Brown	61	(14)
Sandie Byrne
J. M. Coetzee	75	(16)
Laban Carrick Hill
Wilkie Collins	91	(14)
Stephen Amidon
Donald Davie	105	(14)
Neil Powell
Radclyffe Hall	119	(14)
Julie Hearn
T. E. Hulme	133	(16)
Patrick McGuinness
Henry King	149	(16)
Diana Henderson
Derek Mahon	165	(16)
Dillon Johnston
Norman Maccaig	181	(16)
Philip Hobsbaum
Edwin Muir	197	(14)
Peter Scupham
Norman Nicholson	211	(14)
N. S. Thompson
Peter Redgrove	225	(14)
Philip Hobsbaum
Saki	239	(14)
Sandie Byrne
Anne Stevenson	253	(14)
Nicolas Tredell
Alec Waugh	267	(12)
D. J. Taylor
Gilbert White	279	(18)
Samuel Pickering
A. N. Wilson	297	(14)
William H. Pritchard
Master Index to volumes I-VII, Supplements	311