Writers of the Spanish Civil War - The Testimony of their Auto/Biographies

This book brings together new essays on six of the most important British and American writers who lived in or visited Spain in the 20th century and whose work bears the impact of the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of its outbreak, the new angle on the relations between these authors and Spain is the examination of the mutual bond and its fruits from the point of view of life-writing. The six writers - five British and one American - are presented in chronological order of their birth: Gerald Brenan, Robert Graves, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Stephen Spender and Laurie Lee. Their autobiographies, or what they wrote about their lives in or in relation to Spain, are contrasted with the often multiple biographies that were written on them.

List of contents

Contents: Juan Antonio Díaz López: Gerald Brenan 1894-1987 - Margarita Carretero González: Robert Graves 1895-1985 - Mauricio D. Aguilera Linde: Ernest Hemingway 1899-1961 - Rosemary Masters: George Orwell 1903-1950 - Mary Gleeson: Stephen Spender 1909-1995 - Celia Wallhead: Laurie Lee 1914-1997 - Michael Jacobs: Afterword.

About the author

Celia M. Wallhead taught Spanish at Auckland University, New Zealand, and is currently a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Granada, Spain. She is the author or editor of books and articles on contemporary writers such as A. S. Byatt, Salman Rushdie and Thomas Pynchon. She has drawn the contributors from colleagues and friends at the University of Granadäs Department of English and German centred upon the research group «Studies in Narrative in English».

Product details

• Assisted by: Celi M Wallhead (Editor), Celia M Wallhead (Editor), Celia M. Wallhead (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9783034306966
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3430696-6
• No. of pages: 331
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 17 mm x 220 mm
• Weight: 480 g
• Series: Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture; Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics