The first female Chair of the Royal Society of Literature and translated into thirteen languages, Maggie Gee is writing the Victorian condition-of-England novel for 21st-century Britain. In the first critical study of Gee's work, Mine Özyurt Kiliç...
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The first female Chair of the Royal Society of Literature and translated into thirteen languages, Maggie Gee is writing the Victorian condition-of-England novel for 21st-century Britain. In the first critical study of Gee's work, Mine Özyurt Kiliç identifies the specific social problems her novels address and explains the social consciousness similarities Gee shares with the Victorians. Analyzing how Gee adjusts the condition-of-England novel to reflect contemporary Britain enables Özyurt Kiliç to reveal the accuracy of Gee's rich portraits of Britain. She focuses on Gee's ability to cut acros
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part 1 Introduction; Contextualizing Maggie Gee's Fiction; Part 2 Major Works; 1 Author Flinging Herself from the Ivory Tower: Dying, In Other Words (1981); 2 Of the Nuclear Family and the Hibakusha: The Burning Book (1983); 3 Telescopic View of England, England: Light Years (1985); 4 Hard Times: Grace (1988) and Where Are the Snows (1991); 5 Are Such Things Done on Albion's Shore?: Lost Children (1994); 6 Environmental Crisis, from Fact to Fiction: The Ice People (1998) and The Flood (2004); 7 Of the Two Nations: The White Family (2002)
8 Authorship in a Globalized World: My Cleaner (2005) and My Driver (2009)Part 3 Author Interview; 9 Interview with Maggie Gee: Mine Özyurt Kılıç, 17 April 2010, İstanbul;
