Writers and Their Mothers

Ian McEwan, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Rita Dove, Andrew Motion and Anthony Thwaite are among the twenty-two distinguished contributors of original essays to this landmark volume on the profound and frequently perplexing bond between writer and mother. In compelling detail they bring to life the...

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Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Salwak, Dale, editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan 2018.
Colección:Springer eBooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Shakespeare's Mother(s) - Hugh M. Richmond
  • 2. John Ruskin and Margaret - Anthony Daniels, M.D.
  • 3. Ambitious Daughter: Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother - Gardner McFall
  • 4. Walt Whitman and His Mother - Kenneth Silverman
  • 5. The Maternal Embrace: Samuel Beckett and His Mother May - Margaret Drabble
  • 6. William Golding's Mother - Judy Carver
  • 7. Voice Rehearsals & Personas in Sylvia's Letters to Aurelia - Adrianne Kalfopoulou
  • 8. No Villainous Mother: The Life of Eva Larkin - Philip Pullen
  • 9. Robert Lowell: Trapped in Charlotte's Web - Jeffrey Meyers
  • 10. Mother Tongue: A Memoir - Ian McEwan
  • 11. zPersistent Ghosty - Anthony Thwaite
  • 12. Living with Mother - Catherine Aird
  • 13. zBring her again to me . . . z - Ann Thwaite
  • 14. My Mother, and Friends - Reeve Lindbergh
  • 15. My Mother's Desk - Martha Oliver-Smith
  • 16. Mater Sagax - Rachel Hadas
  • 17. My Wicked Stepmother - Martin Amis
  • 18. About zMy Mother Enters the Work Forcey - Rita Dove
  • 19. A Shadow in the Grass - Andrew Motion
  • 20. Mrs. Gabbet's Desk - David Updike
  • 21. Dreams of a Mother and Daughter - Lyndall Gordon
  • 22. Her Programme -Tim Parks.