Rumer Godden : international and intermodern storyteller /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lassner, Phyllis, Le-Guilcher, Lucy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]
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Table of Contents:
  • The view from the middle : Godden and her literary landscape / Mary Grover
  • 'Far more remote than it actually is' : Rumer Godden's Black Narcissus and 1930s mountain writing / Mark Rawlinson
  • In search of Rumer Godden's India / Gayathri Prabhu
  • Questions of 'mixed race' in The lady and the unicorn and The peacock spring / Elizabeth Maslen
  • An experiment with narrative? : Rumer Godden's A fugue in time / Victoria Stewart
  • A child's perspective : the reconstruction of the domestic sphere in The doll's house and Impunity Jane / Lucy Le-Guilcher
  • Imagining gypsies : growing up in Gypsy, gypsy and The Diddakoi / Rod Mengham
  • China court : Rumer Godden's epic of the English novel / Phyllis Lassner
  • Childhood, longing, sexuality, violence and sacrifice in Rumer Godden's The river, An episode of sparrows and The greengage summer / Philip Tew
  • Sweetness and darkness : realism in Rumer Godden's novels / Tessa Hadley
  • Rumer Godden : a sense of performance and poetry / Anne Harvey
  • 'A born storyteller' : clips from the interviews / Clare Jenkins
  • 'Sometimes' : a daughter's reflections / Jane Murray Flutter.