Contemporary British Women Writers : Narrative Strategies

Contemporary British Women Writers is a collection of ten essays, each devoted to an important novelist and written by a distinguished scholar. Included in this volume are Sybille Bedford, Anita Brookner, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Isabel Colegate, Penelope Fitzgerald, Susan Hill, Molly Keane, Muriel Spark, and Fay Weldon. Each essay focuses on several novels, selected to reveal the novelists consistent concerns and characteristic strategies. Individual bibliographies provide a full sense of the novelists work as well as a discriminating guide to the best critical work available.