{"product_id":"a-thoroughly-mischievous-person-9780718895822","title":"A Thoroughly Mischievous Person","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In A Thoroughly Mischievous Person, Alan Kennedy shows how Ransome's magical Swallows and Amazons novels are far more than stories of holiday adventure. Full of allusion to myth, fairy tale and the difficulties of his own family, and largely ignored by his biographers, they are in fact a hidden autobiography and set out to resolve the psychological tensions in his own conflicted life.\" Julian Lovelock, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham and author of Swallows, Amazons and Coots.  \"Alan Kennedy presents a multi-layered psychological analysis of Ransome's literary genius. Experimental research is combined with psychoanalytic insights to show how individual characters, objects, and events capture the reader because they are pointers to deeper universal experiences. The book also offers a fascinating perspective on Ransome's complex personality, and on his use of fiction to reach a child that he could not reach in real life.\" Albrecht Inhoff, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Binghamton University  \"Sharing lodgings at different times with the nature poet Edward Thomas and the Bolshevik agent Karl Radek, Arthur Ransome moved with apparent ease through many different worlds. Alan Kennedy brings both a lifetime's admiration and psychological interpretation to bear upon this fascinating and enigmatic character, exploring his life and character in the light of a psychoanalytic reading of his novels that opens up some of the darkest places of the man and the century.\" Stan Smith, Emeritus Professor of English, Nottingham Trent University and author of Edward Thomas  \"The best piece of writing on Ransome to have come out in years.\"  Peter Willis, Signals, p38, August 2021","brand":"James Clarke \u0026 Co Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018392338775,"sku":"9780718895822","price":28.82,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780718895822.jpg?v=1750776694","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-thoroughly-mischievous-person-9780718895822","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}