{"product_id":"muriel-spark-twentyfirstcentury-perspectives-9780801895548","title":"Muriel Spark  TwentyFirstCentury Perspectives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA resource for students and scholars alike, this volume provides information about Spark's oeuvre while featuring current, theoretically informed interpretations of individual texts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A substantial addition to Spark criticism, of which there has been surprisingly little published in recent years.\" - Aileen Christianson, University of Edinburgh\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Spark as Scottish and World Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. \"Fully to Savour Her Position\": Muriel Spark and Scottish Identity\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. \"The Magazine That Is Considered the Best in the World\": Muriel Spark and the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Situating Spark in Postwar Culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Muriel Spark and the Metaphysics of Modernity: Art, Secularization, and Psychosis\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Muriel Spark and the Meaning of Treason\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Reading Spark in the Age of Suspicion\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Stylish Spinsters: Spark, Pym, and the Postwar Comedy of the Object\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Reading Spark\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. \u003ci\u003eThe Mandelbaum Gate\u003c\/i\u003e: Muriel Spark's Apocalyptic Gag\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. \"Her Lips Are Slightly Parted\": The Ineffability of Erotic Sociality in Muriel Spark's \u003ci\u003eThe Driver's Seat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. \"Look for One Thing and You Find Another\": The Voice and Deduction in Muriel Spark's\u003ci\u003e Memento Mori\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Matters of Care and Control: Surveillance, Omniscience, and Narrative Power in \u003ci\u003eThe Abbess of Crewe\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Loitering with Intent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAppendix: A Bibliography of Recent Criticism on Muriel Spark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527635214679,"sku":"9780801895548","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801895548.jpg?v=1731868641","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/muriel-spark-twentyfirstcentury-perspectives-9780801895548","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}