Critical Essays on T. H. White, English Writer, 1906-1964

by Davies, Gill; Malcolm, David; Simons, John; Sly, Debbie

• ISBN13: 9780773449787
• ISBN10: 0773449787
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-09
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr

Summary

A timely reconsideration of the author of 771e Once and Future King, whose work is still deserving of serious critical attention.

Author Biography

Dr. Gill Davies is Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Edge Hill University in Lancashire. Dr. David Malcolm is Professor of English Literature at the University of Gdansk. Dr. John Simons is Professor of English and Dean of the Faculty of Media and Humanities at the University of Lincoln.

Table of Contents

Foreword
T. H. White: 'a single talent inattentively employed'
Living Backwards: The "end implicit in the beginning" of The Once and Future King	p. 1
Englands Ancient and Modem: T. H. White's The Once and Future King and Sylvia Townsend Warner's The Comer That Held Them	p. 21
Beastly Anachronisms: Youth, Atrocity, Disorder and The Once & Future King	p. 39
Chivalric Values as an Educative Force in The Once and Future King	p. 55
"We all kill our giants cubbin'": Cultural Diagnosis and Prognosis in T.H. White's The Once and Future King	p. 71
'(Re)constructing fiction(s): parody in T.H. White's The Once and Future King'	p. 93
Evolution, the Child, and the Problem of Narrative in T. H. White's The Sword in the Stone and The Book of Merlyn	p. 109
Darkness at Pemberley: T. H. White and the Conventions of Detective Fiction	p. 123
England, Whose England? The Rhetoric of Englishness in T.H. White and George Orwell	p. 143
"Nature Writing" and Eco Criticism - Reading T. H. White in the 21st Century	p. 157
Bibliography	p. 179
Index	p. 187
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