This Companion brings together an international 'Brodie set' of
critics to trace the history, impact, reception and major themes of
Spark's work, from her early poetry to her last novel. It
encompasses the range of Spark's output, pursuing contextual lines
of approach including biography, geography, gender, identity,
nation and religion, and considering her legacy and continuing
influence in the twenty-first century. Spark emerges here as a
serious thinker on issues as diverse as the Welfare State,
secularisation, decolonisation, and anti-psychiatry, and a writer
whose work may be placed alongside Proust, Joyce, Nabokov, and
Lessing. The critics collected here are mindful of how, although
overwhelmingly known as a novelist, by the time of her first novel,
The Comforters, in 1957, Spark already had a significant profile
through poetry, biographical criticism, and literary journalism, as
chair of the Poetry Society and editor of the Poetry Review, and as
author or co-author of a number of scholarly studies of writers
including Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, the Brontes, Cardinal Newman,
and John Masefield. Within a relatively modest space this Companion
touches on the whole range of Spark's work and, in introducing the
oeuvre thematically for those looking to explore this elegant and
challenging author further, also sets the agenda for future Spark
studies. Key Features * A collection of original, specially
commissioned chapters by leading experts in the field * Covers the
whole spectrum of Spark's work * Addresses the key issues and
themes in Spark's work without losing sight of the questions of
form and content * Provides original insights into the contexts of
Spark's work as viewed through literary theory
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