Rumer Godden
Subtitle: international and intermodern storyteller
By: [edited by] Phyllis B. Lassner and Lucy Le-Guilcher.
Contributors: Lassner, Phyllis.; Le-Guilcher, Lucy.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754668282; 9780754694779
Subjects: Godden, Rumer, -- 1907-1998 -- Criticism and interpretation; British -- India -- History -- 20th century; Women and literature -- India -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The view from the middle: Godden and her literary landscape / Mary Grover; title: 'Far more remote than it actually is': Rumer Godden's Black Narcissus and 1930s mountain writing / Mark Rawlinson; title: In search of Rumer Godden's India / Gayathri Prabhu; title: Questions of 'mixed race' in The lady and the unicorn and The peacock spring / Elizabeth Maslen; title: An experiment with narrative? Rumer Godden's A fugue in time / Victoria Stewart; title: A child's perspective: the reconstruction of the domestic sphere in The doll's house and Impunity Jane / Lucy Le Guilcher; title: Imagining gypsies: growing up in Gypsy, gypsy and The Diddakoi / Rod Mengham; title: China court: Rumer Godden's epic of the English novel / Phyllis Lassner; title: Childhood, longing, sexuality, violence and sacrifice in The river, An episode of sparrows, and The greengage summer / Philip Tew; title: Sweetness and darkness: realism in Rumer Godden's novels / Tessa Hadley; title: Rumer Godden: a sense of performance and poetry / Anne Harvey; title: 'A born storyteller': clips from the interviews / Clare Jenkins; title: 'Sometimes': a daughter's reflections / Jane Murray Flutter.