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9780684806150

British Writers

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  • ISBN13:

    9780684806150

  • ISBN10:

    0684806150

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-02-01
  • Publisher: Charles Scribners Sons/Reference

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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.

Supplement V adds articles on 26 writers, among them contemporary authors such as J. G. Ballard, Anita Desai, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Edna O'Brien as well as classic writers omitted from earlier volumes, such as A. A. Milne.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi
Contemporary British Writers Chronology xiii
List of Contributors
xxxi
Subjects in Supplement V
Alan Ayckbourn
1(18)
Kenneth Krauss
J. G. Ballard
19(16)
Brian Stableford
Eavan Boland
35(18)
Karen Odden
Anita Desai
53(24)
A Michael Matin
Roddy Doyle
77(18)
David Hawkes
Penelope Fitzgerald
95(16)
Karen Karbiener
Brian Friel
111(20)
Joseph Devlin
Wilson Harris
131(18)
Vera Kutzinski
Tony Harrison
149(18)
Robert Squillace
Patricia Highsmith
167(16)
Blythe Frank
Geoffrey Hill
183(22)
Tyrus Miller
Elizabeth Jennings
205(18)
Angelyn Hays
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
223(18)
Radhika Jones
James Kelman
241(18)
Angus Cochran
Thomas Kinsella
259(18)
Susana Powell
Medbh McGuckian
277(18)
Clair Wills
A. A. Milne
295(18)
Lisa Makman
Richard Murphy
313(20)
Benjamin La Farge
Edna O'Brien
333(14)
Laura Engels
Ben Okri
347(16)
Gabriel Brownstein
Joe Orton
363(16)
Martin Puchner
Caryl Phillips
379(16)
Louise Yelin
Will Self
395(14)
Maura Spiegel
Alan Sillitoe
409(18)
John Tucker
Graham Swift
427(16)
Gita May
Master Index to Volumes I-VII, Supplements I-V 443

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