1986, ISBN: 0292764960

When British writers Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil named Barbara Pym one of the twentieth century's most underrated authors in a 1977 Times Literary Supplement survey, they started a… Mehr…

When British writers Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil named Barbara Pym one of the twentieth century's most underrated authors in a 1977 Times Literary Supplement survey, they started a Barbara Pym revival that continued unabated in Great Britain and the United States. Barbara Pym's delightful tales of jumble sales and parish meetings, her ironic insights into the relationships between women and men, have won a devoted following. Indeed she is often compared to that most accomplished author of comedies of manners, Jane Austen. The Pleasure of Miss Pym is a critical study of Pym as comic writer and of the links between her life and autobiographical writings and her fiction, written with a liveliness of style and tone that matches Pym's own. Not only does Charles Burkhart provide perceptive discussions of Pym's life and novels, he also illuminates the worldview represented in her work, the unique nature of her comedy, her religion, her place within the history of the novel, and her penetrating insights into male-female relationships. All of Pym's work, including the 1986 posthumous publication, An Academic Question, is intelligently surveyed here. Scholars of contemporary English literature will derive both instruction and pleasure from this elegantly written study, as will Pym's admiring readers, for whom it is also intended. 20th century,contemporary,history,history and criticism,literary criticism,literary criticism and collections,literature and fiction,modern (16th-21st centuries),movements and periods History, University of Texas Press<

1987, ISBN: 0292764960

[EAN: 9780292764965], Used, good, [PU: Univ of Texas Pr], Biography & Autobiography|General, Ships from Reno, NV. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside.

1987, ISBN: 9780292764965

Univ of Texas Pr, 1987-06. Hardcover. Good., Univ of Texas Pr, 1987-06

1987, ISBN: 0292764960

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