Jonathan Coe
Published on 2. December 2015
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-137-40583-8 (ISBN)
Description
Jonathan Coe is a highly-acclaimed writer whose work has enjoyed worldwide success. This study, the first of its kind, explores the full range of Coe's work, offering readers a comprehensive and accessible overview of his novels, fiction and other writings, as well as the surrounding criticism. The volume also features a new interview with Coe.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 209 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
308 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-40583-8 (9781137405838)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-40584-5
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
Vanessa Guignery is Professor of English Literature and Postcolonial Literature at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. She is the author of Novelists in the New Millennium (2012), also published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Content
General Editors' Preface.- Acknowledgements.- PART I: INTRODUCTION Timeline.- 1. Introduction.- 2. A Biographical Reading.- PART II: MAJOR WORKS 3. 'Funny, Brutalist and Short': The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love and The Dwarves of Death.- 4. State-of-the-nation Novels: What a Carve Up!, The Rotters' Club and The Closed Circle.- 5. Gravity and Grace: The House of Sleep and The Rain before it Falls.- 6. Everyman on the Road and Abroad: The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim and Expo 58.- PART III: CRITICISM AND CONTEXTS 7. Author Interview.- 8. Other Writings.- 9. Critical Reception.- Bibliography.- Index.