The first fully detailed and critically contextualised study of the
novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett Ivy Compton-Burnett is a strikingly
original novelist, writing conversation-novels in which talk is the
medium and subject. She is innovative like Joyce and Woolf but more
accessible and less theoretical, a modernist unawares. She makes
readers think and her terse cool witty style reminds us that the
novel is an art. To read most living writers of fiction after
reading her is to feel novelists have become lazy and made their
readers lazy. She requires attention, and she doesn't write to pass
the time or invite identification, but she is amusing and
challenging. This re-valuation of a neglected artist is a close
analysis of forms, ideas and language in novels which range from
her first conventionally moral love-story, Dolores, which she tried
to suppress, to startling stories about landed gentry in Victorian
and Edwardian England. Key Features Provides incisive and
accessible close readings of Compton-Burnett's language,
life-narratives, emotional expression and thought Presents new work
of a leading critic Places Compton-Burnett in the context of
Modernist writing
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