Afterword : conjuring the literary dead / edited by Dale Salwak.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salwak, Dale.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imaginary conversations.

Authors, English--Interviews.

Authors, English.

Authors, American--Interviews.

Authors, American.

Authors--Interviews.

Authors.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xviii, 229 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2011.

Summary:

This collection of essays, edited by Salwak (English, Citrus College, CA), celebrates 200 years of English and American authorship by presenting imaginary interviews with some of the greatest authors of the last two centuries. Each essay consists of a fictional conversation between a contributor and such literary greats as: Samuel Johnson, George Orwell, Jane Austin, Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, Rudyard Kipling, and others. Sometimes transporting readers to the author in question's time and other times bringing past authors into our modern world, this book offers readers interested in English literature compelling new perspectives on some of the greatest writers in history. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction: the crucible of the imagination / Dale Salwak and Laura Nagy

Descent: negotiating with the dead / Margaret Atwood

Sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea: Samuel Johnson at home / Jeffrey Meyers

The aziola and the moth: the Shelleys at the Bagni di Pisa / Nora Crook

An (unfortunate) interview with Henry James / Cynthia Ozick

A travelling coincidence / Ann Thwaite

Ezra Pound: Rapallo, 1927 / William M. Chace

Orwell's ghosts: a play in one act / Peter Firchow

Jane Austen's portrait of the artist as a young woman / Eugene Goodheart

Meeting the artist: Thomas Hardy / Brian Aldiss

Oscar Wilde: may I say nothing? / Francis King

George Gissing: why should I die, if I can help it? / Paul Delany

Talking with Joseph Conrad / Alan Sillitoe

A tardy talk with Edith Wharton / John Halperin

A visit with Mr. Frost / Jay Parini

William Faulkner: as I lay dreaming / Carl Rollyson

Questions for the master: Alfred Edward Housman / Colin Dexter

Rudyard Kipling: thinking in ink / Catherine Aird

Arnold Bennett: a great man / Margaret Drabble

One word less: questioning Samuel Beckett / Alan W. Friedman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781587299896

1587299895

OCLC:

676727586