| Autore |
Stockard Emily
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Cham : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (247 pages)
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| Disciplina |
823.914
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| Soggetto topico |
Women novelists, English
Literary criticism
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| ISBN |
3-031-39667-7
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chronology -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: Less Than Angels: Discontents, Detachment, and Discontinuities -- Anthropological Perspectives -- Continuity in the Suburbs -- Continuous Fragmentation and the Case of Tom Mallow -- Catherine and Deirdre: Recovered Continuities -- The Neglected Riches of Home -- References -- Chapter 3: A Glass of Blessings: Crossing the Boundaries Between Elegance and Excellence -- Pym and the World of Male Partnerships -- Social and Ecclesiastical Expansions -- Elegance and Its Discontents -- Rocky Napier and Spring-Time Discontents -- Piers Longridge: The False Promise of Another Spring -- Mary Beamish and Expanding Roles -- Renewed Continuity in Rodney and Wilmet -- References -- Chapter 4: No Fond Return of Love: Unlikely Continuities -- Unlikely Continuities and Persistent Patterns -- Dulcie and Viola: Surprising Actions and Comic Endings -- References -- Chapter 5: Struggle for Continuity During the "Wilderness Years" (1963-1977) -- Personal and Professional Lives Intertwined -- The Shifting Literary World -- Continuous Effort -- "How Can One Be Different?": The Drabble Experiment-An Academic Question -- A Narrowed Role Considered -- References -- Chapter 6: An Unsuitable Attachment: A Redefinition -- Marriage as Continuity -- The New Man -- Class and Color in Draft -- The Limits of Revision -- References -- Chapter 7: The Sweet Dove Died: Discontinued Friendships and the Arrested Life -- Richard Roberts -- The Original Vision -- Philip Larkin as Editor -- Before the Canvas Was Cut -- The Sweet Dove Died: The Arrested Life -- References -- Chapter 8: Life Goes On: Continued Sustenance -- Robert Liddell and Greece -- Robert Smith -- Hazel Holt -- "Editor Pym" at the International African Institute -- Posthumous Continuity.
Philip Larkin -- The Marketplace, Modernism, and Pym's Readership -- The Pym Influence -- References -- Chapter 9: Strands of Change and Quartet in Autumn: The Limits of Continuity -- Church and City -- Failing Health -- Village Life in Retirement -- Quartet in Autumn: The Limits of Continuity -- Towards an Austere Style -- Narrowed Lives -- Contentment and Isolation -- Death and Continuity -- Artistic Continuity -- References -- Chapter 10: Continuity Regained: Village Life and Rediscovery -- Rediscovery -- The Booker Prize and Other Accolades -- Countryside and Church: Continuity Re-established in Oxfordshire -- References -- Chapter 11: A Few Green Leaves: Looking to the Future -- Notes on Village Life, Past and Present -- A Few Green Leaves -- Documenting Change -- Documenting Discontents -- The Elusive Past and Persistent Present -- Looking to the Future -- References -- Chapter 12: Epilogue: Last Respects -- References -- Index.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910754089803321 |
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The making of Barbara Pym : Oxford, the war years, and post-war austerity / / Emily Stockard
