Maggie O'Farrell

Bringing together cultural analysis and textual readings on critically-acclaimed bestseller and winner of the prestigious Women''s Prize for Fiction, Maggie O''Farrell, this collection covers her nine novels, her memoir I Am, I Am, I Am, two children''s books and features an exclusive interview with the author herself. The first full-length study of O''Farrell''s work, this book offers critical explorations from her earliest works to the award-winning Hamnet and most recent best-selling novel, The Marriage Portrait. With a timeline of her life and works, as well as suggested further reading, the themes explored include grief and sacrifice, longing and belonging, trauma, translation, palimpsestic texts and the relation of her work to history and the female domestic gothic.>

Préface
This is the first full-length companion to reading and studying Maggie O'Farrell, featuring new critical essays and textual readings of her work and includes an exclusive interview O'Farrell herself.

Contenu
Acknowledgments Contributors Chronology of Maggie O'Farrell's Life and Works Introduction - Elaine Canning (Swansea University, UK) In Search of Maggie O'Farrell 1. 'The Space Between': Maggie O'Farrell's The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (Susan Alice Fischer, Medgar Evers College/CUNY, USA) 2. Love, Loss and (Be)longing in After You'd Gone and The Distance Between Us (Elaine Canning, Swansea University, UK) 3. 'The Women We Become After Children': Palimpsests of the City and the Self in Maggie O'Farrell's The Hand That First Held Mine (Ruth Gilligan, University of Birmingham, UK) 4. Vantage Points: How Maggie O'Farrell Dissects a Marriage by Shifting Points of View in This Must Be the Place (Edward Matthews, San Diego, USA) 5. Lost in Translation: The Dis-Located Structures of Maggie O'Farrell's My Lover's Lover (Sarah Gamble, Swansea University, UK) 6. 'A small victory for Love over Death': the haunted narratives of I Am, I Am, I Am, Instructions for a Heatwave, and The Hand that First Held Mine (Tasha Alden, Aberystwyth University, UK) 7. The taming shrew: Agnes in Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet as (early) modern husbander (Nicholas Taylor-Collins, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK) 8. Filling Historical and Emotional Voids: Hamnet (Laurie Maguire, University of Oxford, UK) 9. Remaking the Duchess: Underpainting and Overpainting in The Marriage Portrait (Elaine Canning, Swansea University, UK) 10. 'Post-It Baby': An Interview with Maggie O'Farrell (Elaine Canning, Swansea University, UK) Bibliography Further Reading Index