Penelope Fitzgerald and the Consolation of Fiction

ISBN-13: 9780367884642 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 298 str.

Christopher Knight

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Christopher J. Knight’s Penelope Fitzgerald and the Consolation of Fiction is a study of the British author Penelope Fitzgerald (1916 – 2000), attending to her nine novels, especially as viewed through the lens both of "late style" (she published her first novel, The Golden Child, at age sixty) and, in her words, of "consolation, that is,

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: "Music at the Close

Chapter One: The Golden Child and the Anxious Relation to Detective Fiction

Chapter Two: The Second Saddest Story: Despair, Belief, and Moral Perseverance in The Bookshop

Chapter Three: Offshore: "Between the Hither and the Farther Shore"

Chapter Four: Human Voices: Voice, Truth and Human Fortitude

Chapter Five: At Freddie’s, or "All My Pretty Ones"

Chapter Six: Innocence: An Allegory of Fall

Chapter Seven: The Beginning of Spring: Resisting "Irreligious Triviality"

Chapter Eight: The Gate of Angels and the Challenge to Modern Religious Belief

Chapter Nine: The Blue Flower and A World Elsewhere

Conclusion: "The Gift of Death"

Works Cited

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Christopher J. Knight is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Montana, USA.