Crooked Dividend
Essays on Muriel Spark
Published on 7. March 2022
328 pages
978-1-908980-34-2 (ISBN)
Description
These essays offer fresh insight into the life and work of Muriel Spark (1918-2006). Looking at the cultural, literary, religious and personal frameworks that shaped her writing, The Crooked Dividend provides a comprehensive overview of Spark's multifaceted work through the examination of her publications, archive material, and colourful career.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Front matter
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Body
- Introduction
- Part I. Spark, Biography, and Female Experience
- 1. 'I knew what was what': Correspondence and the Meta-Archival in the Muriel Spark Archive
- 2. Muriel Spark's Waywardness
- 3. Spark's Spinsters: Bedsits and Boarding Houses in the Novels of Muriel Spark
- 4. Between Desire and Control: The Fashioned Image in Muriel Spark's Life and Fiction
- 5. 'Unfortunately you have left out all the love poems': Spark in Love
- Part II. Writing Materials
- 6. Muriel Spark and J. M. Barrie
- 7. All the Abbess's Nuns: Muriel Spark and the Idioms of Watergate
- 8. 'Making patterns with facts': Unmaking History in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- 9. Muriel Spark and the 'Hired Grammarians'
- 10. Already and Not Yet Written: Unfinished Acts of Writing in the Novels of Muriel Spark
- 11. Muriel Spark's Windows and the Architecture of Surveillance
- 12. Art and Industry Must Walk Hand in Hand: Muriel Spark and Twentieth-Century Design Ideology
- 13. The Publishing Scene in A Far Cry from Kensington
- 14. Dramatic Contexts and Metatheatricality in Muriel Spark's Writing for Performance
- Back matter
- Notes on contributors
- Index
- Back cover
