Elizabeth Taylor

A Centenary Celebration
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4438-3656-2
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 195 Seiten

Elizabeth Taylor (1912–75) is increasingly being recognised as one of the leading English novelists and short story writers of the middle of the twentieth century. Successive generations of readers have delighted in her subtle and penetrating exposures of the vanities and self-delusions of everyday life, her special sensitivity to frustration and disappointment, and the marvellous freshness of her wit and humour. Now, to mark the centenary of her birth, Elizabeth Taylor: A Centenary Celebration presents several new critical assessments of her work by leading academics, together with a sizeable number of Taylor’s uncollected or unpublished writings: short stories, including the first and the last she completed, essays on writers and writing, and a selection of letters to various correspondents, including Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen. Opening many previously unexplored perspectives on Taylor’s work, this volume will be essential reading for her admirers and for the wider study of the literature of her time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reeve, N. H.

Über Autor(innen)

Reeve, N. H.
N. H. Reeve is Professor of English at Swansea University. His study of Elizabeth Taylor for the Northcote House Writers and their Work series appeared in 2008. He is currently working on the new Cambridge edition of the complete fiction of Henry James.