Passions of the mind : selected writings / A. S. Byatt
1991, 1st edition. London : Vintage. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #433960
Physical description; x, 346 p ; 20 cm. Contents; Intro -- About the Author -- Other Books by This Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- As A Writer -- 1: Still Life/ Nature morte -- 2: "Sugar" / "Le Sucre" -- Victorians: Incarnation and Art -- 3: Robert Browning: Fact, Fiction, Lies, Incarnation and Art -- 4: George Eliot: A Celebration -- 5: George Eliot's Essays -- Moderns: Varying Strands -- 6: Accurate Letters: Ford Madox Ford -- 7: "The Omnipotence of Thought": Frazer, Freud and Post-Modernist Fiction -- 8: People in Paper Houses: Attitudes to "Realism" and "Experiment" in English Post-war Fiction -- 9: William Golding: Darkness Visible -- 10: The TLS Poetry Competition -- 11: A Sense of Religion: Enright's God -- The Female Voice? -- 12: Willa Cather -- 13: Elizabeth Bowen: The House in Paris -- 14: Sylvia Plath: Letters Home -- 15: Toni Morrison: Beloved -- 16: An Honourable Escape: Georgette Heyer -- 17: Barbara Pym -- 18: Monique Wittig: The Lesbian Body -- Vision and Reality -- 19: Coleridge: An Archangel a Little Damaged -- 20: Charles Rycroft: The Innocence of Dreams -- 21: Van Gogh, Death and Summer -- Notes. Subjects; Languages & Literatures. English Literature. English essays 20th century Collections. Literature, Modern History and criticism. English literature History and criticism. American literature History and criticism. Women in literature. English literature Criticism.
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