Angus Wilson

by Conradi, Peter J.

• ISBN13: 9780746308035
• ISBN10: 0746308035
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-07
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

A lucid and accessible study of Angus Wilson, a magnificently eclectic novelist, who understood the theatricality of modern life, and provided maps of Englishness, maps of the anxious modern psyche and the post-war world.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Biographical Outline
Abbreviations and References
Introduction	p. 1
The Art of Creative Breakdown: Men	p. 14
Hemlock and After	p. 14
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes	p. 19
The Art of Creative Breakdown: Women	p. 25
The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot	p. 26
Late Call	p. 31
No Laughing Matter: Confluence	p. 36
No Laughing Matter: Play	p. 49
Fire, Ice and Magic	p. 55
As If By Magic	p. 55
Setting the World on Fire	p. 60
Conclusion: Deniaiserie and Post-modernity	p. 67
Notes	p. 72
Select Bibliography	p. 75
Index	p. 81
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