Description
Book SynopsisOffers a comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of William Trevor -- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction Paul Delaney and Michael Parker
Part One
1. Learnt by heart: William Trevor and reading – Hermione Lee
2. In another country: aspects of Trevor’s England – George O’Brien
3. ‘Compassion thrown to the winds’: William Trevor and postcolonial London – C.L. Innes
4. ‘The battlefield has never quietened’: political violence in the fiction of William Trevor – Elmer Kennedy-Andrews
5. William Trevor’s screen fictions: ‘No interest. Not suitable for treatment’ – Lance Pettitt
Part Two
6. The Ireland that we dreamed of?: ‘The Ballroom of Romance’ – Tina O’Toole
7. ‘Moments and subtleties and shadows of grey’: reflections on the narrative mode of Fools of Fortune Michael O'Neill
8. ‘Bid me strike a match and blow’: The Silence in the Garden Derek Hand
9. The tragedy of the return of history: ‘Lost Ground’ Jennifer M. Jeffers
10. The power of withholding: politics, gender and narrative technique in Felicia’s Journey – Michael Parker
11. ‘... as if she were a symbol of something ...’: The Story of Lucy Gault – Tom Herron
12. ‘The art of the glimpse’: Cheating at Canasta Paul Delaney
13. Character, community and critical nostalgia: Love and Summer – Heidi Hansson
Bibliography and filmography
Index
