Margaret Drabble

Margaret Drabble is a writer who plays a lively role in both popular and literary culture. Widely read and studied throughout the world her novels attract both the general reader and the literary critic. Originally published in 1985, Joanne Creighton examines this phenomenon and places particular emphasis on her "Englishness", her role as a woman writing credibly about modern women and her ability to mediate between the traditional and the modern. She argues that the resonances of Drabble's work grow put of her strong sense of the powers and resources of existing literary traditions coupled with her intelligent portrayal of the familiar problems of people in modern society, and that is precisely this mediating position which makes Drabble an important voice in contemporary fiction and links her with other writers of her generation. Challenging those critics who see Drabble as a fiction traditionalist. Creighton finds her work open-ended, inquiring, equivocal and unquestionably contemporary in spirit.

List of contents

General Editor’s Preface. Preface and Acknowledgements. A Note on the Texts. 1. Introduction 2. Bird-cages 3. Golden Realms 4. Urban Ground. Notes. Bibliography.

About the author

Joanne V. Creighton

Summary

Margaret Drabble is read and studied throughout the world, her novels attract both the general reader and the literary critic. First published in 1985, the author examines this phenomenon and places emphasis on her "Englishness", her role as a woman writing about modern women and her ability to mediate between the traditional and the modern.

Product details

• Authors: Joanne V. Creighton
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2021
• EAN: 9780367333126
• ISBN: 978-0-367-33312-6
• No. of pages: 130
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000