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"All this reading" : the literary world of Barbara Pym / edited by Frauke Elisabeth Lenckos and Ellen J. Miller.
Van Pelt Library PR6066.Y58 Z538 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pym, Barbara--Criticism and interpretation.
- Pym, Barbara.
- Pym, Barbara--Knowledge and learning--Literature.
- Literature.
- Women and literature--England--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- England.
- History.
- Books and reading in literature.
- Books and reading.
- Physical Description:
- 247 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, N.J. : Associated University Presses, [2003]
- Contents:
- Barbara Pym (1913-1980) / Ellen J. Miller 25
- Part I Reading in Barbara Pym's Novels
- "All This Reading": The Importance of Literature in the Novels of Barbara Pym / Katherine Anne Ackley 33
- "A Life Ruined By Literature"?: Barbara Pym's Excellent Women Readers / Frauke Elisabeth Lenckos 47
- Excellent Women and After: The Art of Popularity / Barbara Everett 64
- A Suitable Detachment: Barbara Pym and the Romance of the Library / Helen Clare Taylor 76
- "Love Like Bedsocks": Barbara Pym's Some Tame Gazelle / Anthony Kaufman 89
- Reading Barbara Pym Autobiographically: Metaphors of Aging and Death in The Sweet Dove Died, Quartet in Autumn, and A Few Green Leaves / Orphia Jane Allen 100
- The Quest for Ritual and Celebration in the Comedic World of Barbara Pym / Ellie Wymard 115
- Full of Quotations, Like Hamlet: Literary Quotations and Allusions in Some Tame Gazelle / Anne Pilgrim 125
- Part II Literary Encounters
- My First Reader / Hazel Holt 143
- Autumn Leaves: Publishing Barbara Pym / Paul De Angelis 149
- Barbara Pym as Comforter / John Bayley 166
- Philip Larkin: Barbara Pym's Ideal Reader / Janice Rossen 173
- Reading Charlotte M. Yonge into the Novels of Barbara Pym / Barbara J. Dunlap 179
- Reading Barbara Pym with College Students / Jan Fergus 194
- A Critic's Confession / Jane Nardin 206
- A Last Literary Collaboration: "A Year in West Oxfordshire," by Barbara Pym / Ronald Blythe 213
- Epilogue: The Literary Reputation of Barbara Pym / Dale Salwak 219.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0838639569
- OCLC:
- 49799360
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