Willy Maley

Cultural devolution?: Representing Scotland in the 1970s

The Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark

Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Jul 6, 2010

This Companion brings together an international 'Brodie set' of critics to trace the hist... more 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 alongside Proust, Joyce, Nabokov, and Lessing. The critics collected here are mindful of how, although overwhelmingly known as a novelist, by the time of her first novel, The Comforters, in 1957, Spark already had a significant profile through poetry, biographical criticism, and literary journalism, as chair of the Poetry Society and editor of the Poetry Review, and as author or co-author of a number of scholarly studies of writers including Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, the Brontes, Cardinal Newman, and John Masefield. Within a relatively modest space this Companion touches on the whole range of Spark's work and, in introducing the oeuvre thematically for those looking to explore this elegant and challenging author further, also sets the agenda for future Spark studies. Key Features * A collection of original, specially commissioned chapters by leading experts in the field * Covers the whole spectrum of Spark's work * Addresses the key issues and themes in Spark's work without losing sight of the questions of form and content * Provides original insights into the contexts of Spark's work as viewed through literary theory

Book reviews 'Things of Darkness: Economies of race and Gender in Early Modern England', by Kim F. Hall. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995; 'Authority and Representation in Early Modern Discourse', by Robert Weimann, edited by David Hillman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

Review of Colin Kidd, British Identities Before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)

Review of Clare Carroll, Circe’s Cup: Cultural Transformations in Writing about Early Modern Ireland, Critical Conditions: Field Day Essays (Cork: Cork University Press, 2001)

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Mind behind the Lord of the Rings. Book review 'Tolkien: A Biography', by Michael White. London: Little, Brown and Company, 2001

The Canon: John Milton, History of Britain (1670)

Review of Janet Clare and Stephen O’Neill (eds.), Shakespeare and the Irish Writer (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2011)

Introduction: garden angels

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Alan Warner, Their Lips Talk of Mischief (London: Faber & Faber, 2014)

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Drama out of a crisis: James Connolly’s <i>Under Which Flag</i> (1916) and Teresa Deevy’s <i>The Wild Goose</i> (1936)

Irish Studies Review, Sep 27, 2022

Introduction to part I: history

Spenser and Europe

The Spenser Review, 2017

Review of Bob Cooney, Proud Journey: A Spanish Civil War Memoir, with Introduction by Meirian Jump (London: Marx Memorial Library & Workers’ School and Manifesto Press, 2015), and Mark J. Gillespie, When the Gorbals Fought Franco: The Story of J. J. Lynch, International Brigade Volunteer. Irishma...

Spark on Screen: The Book-to-screen Adaptations of Muriel Spark

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The Shakespeare Circle: An Alternative Biography, edited by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells

The Spenser Review, 2016

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Performing Blackness on English Stages, 1500–1800. By Virginia Mason Vaughan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv + 190 + 10 illus. £45; $75 Hb

Theatre Research International, Feb 10, 2006

Beyond Scotland: New Contexts for Twentieth-Century Scottish Literature (review)

Comparative Critical Studies, 2006

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Invoicing Cairns and Richards

Textual Practice, Mar 1, 1990

... Let them keep their limbs whole and hack our English. {The Merry Wives of Windsor, III.i.70-1... more

Review of: S.L. Newstok and A. Thompson (eds.), Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance, Signs of Race

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