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, for doubts and fears as well as for naked human loss."
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, for doubts and fears as well as for naked human loss."
Christopher J. Knight is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Montana, USA.
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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
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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