British Women Writing Fiction

by Werlock, Abby H. P.

• ISBN13: 9780817309817
• ISBN10: 0817309810
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Regina Barreca
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(22)
Abby H. P. Werlock
Iris Murdoch: Mapping the Country of Desire	23	(19)
Roberta S. White
``Transformed and Translated'': The Colonized Reader of Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos Space Fiction	42	(14)
Susan Rowland
P. D. James and the Dissociation of Sensibility	56	(14)
Eric Nelson
Retrofitting the Raj: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Uses and Abuses of the Past	70	(20)
Judie Newman
Anita Brookner: On Reaching for the Sun	90	(17)
Kate Fullbrook
``Witness to Their Vanishing'': Elaine Feinstein's Fictions of Jewish Continuity	107	(18)
Phyllis Lassner
``Women Like Us Must Learn to Stick Together'': Lesbians in the Novels of Fay Weldon	125	(23)
Patricia Juliana Smith
Crossing Boundaries: The Female Artist and the Sacred Word in A. S. Byatt's Possession	148	(27)
Deborah Denenbolz Morse
Emma Tennant: The Secret Lives of Girls	175	(16)
Marilyn C. Wesley
Margaret Drabble: Chronicler, Moralist, Artist	191	(22)
Mary Rose Sullivan
To Pose or Not to Pose: The Interplay of Object and Subject in the Works of Angela Carter	213	(16)
Dee Goertz
During Mother's Absence: The Fiction of Michele Roberts	229	(19)
Clare Hanson
Navigating the Interior Journey: The Fiction of Jeanette Winterson	248	(22)
Jan Rosemergy
Sea Changes: African-Caribbean and African Women Writers in England	270	(23)
Laura Niesen de Abruna
Muriel Spark: Beginning Again	293	(22)
John Glavin
Contributors	315	(6)
Index	321