Navigates between formalist criticism and context-based criticismExamines a carefully selected group of key texts from a broad spectrum of Anglophone literatureTakes an original approach to twentieth century literature by focusing on the under-studied genre of the epistolary novel

Navigates between formalist criticism and context-based criticism Examines a carefully selected group of key texts from a broad spectrum of Anglophone literature Takes an original approach to twentieth century literature by focusing on the under-studied genre of the epistolary novel

Autorentext

Rachel Bower is Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK. She is currently writing a book entitled Transcultural Collaboration: Poets of Leeds and Nigeria Unite, 1950-1970. She has a PhD from the University of Cambridge. She writes regularly for academic journals and magazines and publishes her poetry widely. She is currently co-editing a Special Issue of English Studies on Tony Harrison with Jacob Blakesely, and co-ediitng a poetry anthology with Helen Mort (Moons on Glass, 2017).

Klappentext

Navigates between formalist criticism and context-based criticismExamines a carefully selected group of key texts from a broad spectrum of Anglophone literatureTakes an original approach to twentieth century literature by focusing on the under-studied genre of the epistolary novel

Inhalt
Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Chapter One: Prison Letters and Epistolary Encryption: John Berger's From A to X (2008).- Chapter Two: Searching for Letters in the Archive: Amitav Ghosh's In An Antique Land (1992) and Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion (1987).- Chapter Three: Writing to the Future: J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron (1990).- Chapter Four: The Limits of the Letter: Alice Walker's The Color Purple (1982).- Chapter Five: Crossing the seven seas: transnational and cross-linguistic dialogue in Monica Ali's Brick Lane (2003).- Conclusion.- Notes.- Bibliography.