Description
Book SynopsisA resource for students and scholars alike, this volume provides information about Spark's oeuvre while featuring current, theoretically informed interpretations of individual texts.
Trade Review"A substantial addition to Spark criticism, of which there has been surprisingly little published in recent years." - Aileen Christianson, University of Edinburgh"
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
Part I: Spark as Scottish and World Author
Chapter 1. "Fully to Savour Her Position": Muriel Spark and Scottish Identity
Chapter 2. "The Magazine That Is Considered the Best in the World": Muriel Spark and the New Yorker
Part II: Situating Spark in Postwar Culture
Chapter 3. Muriel Spark and the Metaphysics of Modernity: Art, Secularization, and Psychosis
Chapter 4. Muriel Spark and the Meaning of Treason
Chapter 5. Reading Spark in the Age of Suspicion
Chapter 6. Stylish Spinsters: Spark, Pym, and the Postwar Comedy of the Object
Part III: Reading Spark
Chapter 7. The Mandelbaum Gate: Muriel Spark's Apocalyptic Gag
Chapter 8. "Her Lips Are Slightly Parted": The Ineffability of Erotic Sociality in Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat
Chapter 9. "Look for One Thing and You Find Another": The Voice and Deduction in Muriel Spark's Memento Mori
Chapter 10. Matters of Care and Control: Surveillance, Omniscience, and Narrative Power in The Abbess of Crewe and Loitering with Intent
Appendix: A Bibliography of Recent Criticism on Muriel Spark
Contributors
Index
