A.S. Byatt

A.S. ByattThis stimulating and comprehensive study of A. S. Byatts work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatts fictions up to and including The Childrens Book (2009). The authors also consider her role as a critic, cultural commentator and public intellectual.

or critiques

the elephant

“A funeral procession was winding slowly up the path

This book uncovers the controversial policies surrounding the strategy of national missile defence and provides an alternative

which means that conspiracy theories abound about how it is governed and how it relates to various power centers in Irish life

political affiliations and blackmail negotiations

and highlights howthis oeuvre intersects with and contributes to contemporary debates on gender

it considers how competing narratives of the past are constructed

spiritual and philosophical expressions

and significant writers in the first half of the twentieth century

Elizabeth and James

including Amelia Jones