across walls overview-study of novels and short stories by eighteen 20th century English and American authors
By: Gillian Mary Hanson.
Series: Studies in comparative literature ;; v. 50; Studies in comparative literature (Lewiston, N.Y.) ;; v. 50.
Publisher: E. Mellen Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: English fiction -- England, Northern -- History and criticism; American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature, Comparative -- English and American; Literature, Comparative -- American and English; England, Northern -- Intellectual life; Southern States -- Intellectual life; England, Northern -- In literature; Southern States -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-165) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1; title: Chapter One:; title: Georgia and Yorkshire: Reversals and Inversions in 13; title: Carson McCullers' The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and; title: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Susan Hill's "The Albatross" and A Bit of Singing and Dancing; title: Chapter Two:; title: Louisiana and Nottinghamshire: Rotation and Repetition 31; title: in Walker Percy's The Moviegoer and Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and "The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner"; title: Chapter Three:; title: Georgia and Merseyside: Violence and Laughter in 51; title: Flannery O'Connor's "Everything That Rises Must Converge," "Good Country People," and "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and Beryl Bainbridge's A Quiet Life and The Dressmaker; title: Chapter Four:; title: Maryland and Manchester: Musicians and Travelers in 71; title: Ann Tyler's Searching for Caleb and Anthony Burgess' The Piano players; title: Chapter Five:; title: Cumbria and Mississippi: The Symbolic Potential of the 85; title: Land in Elizabeth Spencer's Fire in the Morning and Melvyn Bragg's The Hired Man; title: Chapter Six: Kentucky and Yorkshire: 97; title: Metaphysical Landscapes and Character Transformations in Wendell Berry's The Memory of Old Jack and Jane Gardam's Crusoe's Daughter; title: Chapter Seven:; title: Mississippi and Lancashire: Petrified Women in Eudora 107; title: Welty's Curtain of Green and Elizabeth Troops' Darling Daughters; title: Chapter Eight:; title: Kentucky and Teeside: Social Entrapment in Bobby Ann 123; title: Mason's Love Life and "Shiloh " and Pat Barker's Union Street; title: Chapter Nine: 141; title: Coventry and Virginia: Women Renewed in Doris Betts' Heading West and "Hitchhiker" and Sue Townsend's Rebuilding Coventry and Womberang.