This Companion brings together an international 'Brodie set' of critics to trace the history, impact, reception and major themes of Spark's work, from her early poetry to her last novel. It encompasses the range of Spark's output, pursuing contextual...
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This Companion brings together an international 'Brodie set' of critics to trace the history, impact, reception and major themes of Spark's work, from her early poetry to her last novel. It encompasses the range of Spark's output, pursuing contextual lines of approach including biography, geography, gender, identity, nation and religion, and considering her legacy and continuing influence in the twenty-first century. Spark emerges here as a serious thinker on issues as diverse as the Welfare State, secularisation, decolonisation, and anti-psychiatry, and a writer whose work may be placed along
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Brief Biography of Muriel Spark; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Muriel Spark and the Problems of Biography; CHAPTER TWO Poetic Perception in the Fiction of Muriel Spark; CHAPTER THREE Body and State in Spark's Early Fiction; CHAPTER FOUR The Stranger Spark; CHAPTER FIVE Muriel Spark and the Politics of the Contemporary; CHAPTER SIX Spark, Modernism and Postmodernism; CHAPTER SEVEN Muriel Spark as Catholic Novelist; CHAPTER EIGHT Muriel Spark's Break with Romanticism; CHAPTER NINE The Postwar Contexts of Spark's Writing
CHAPTER TEN Muriel Spark's Crimes of WitEndnotes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index
