Maggie O'Farrell

Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Dr Elaine Canning author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:25th Jan '24

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This is the first full-length companion to reading and studying Maggie O’Farrell, featuring new critical essays and textual readings of her work and includes an exclusive interview O'Farrell herself.

Bringing together cultural analysis and textual readings on critically-acclaimed bestseller and winner of the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction, Maggie O’Farrell, this collection covers her nine novels, her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am, two children’s books and features an exclusive interview with the author herself. The first full-length study of O’Farrell’s work, this book offers critical explorations from her earliest works to the award-winning Hamnet and most recent best-selling novel, The Marriage Portrait. With a timeline of her life and works, as well as suggested further reading, the themes explored include grief and sacrifice, longing and belonging, trauma, translation, palimpsestic texts and the relation of her work to history and the female domestic gothic.

Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet brought her the critical acclaim she has long deserved, and now this excellent collection of essays brings her the scholarly attention she merits. These essays are theoretically savvy and offer smart but accessible readings that will return readers and scholars to the delights of O’Farrell’s work. * Jo Eldridge Carney, Professor of English, The College of New Jersey, USA *

ISBN: 9781350325005

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176 pages