Afterword
Subtitle: conjuring the literary dead
By: edited by Dale Salwak
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781587299896
Subjects: Imaginary conversations; English Authors; Interviews; American Authors; Authors
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the crucible of the imagination  -- Dale Salwak and Laura Nagy; title: Descent: negotiating with the dead  -- Margaret Atwood; title: Sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea: Samuel Johnson at home  -- Jeffrey Meyers; title: The aziola and the moth: the Shelleys at the Bagni di Pisa  -- Nora Crook; title: An (unfortunate) interview with Henry James  -- Cynthia Ozick; title: A travelling coincidence  -- Ann Thwaite; title: Ezra Pound: Rapallo, 1927  -- William M. Chace; title: Orwell's ghosts: a play in one act  -- Peter Firchow; title: Jane Austen's portrait of the artist as a young woman  -- Eugene Goodheart; title: Meeting the artist: Thomas Hardy  -- Brian Aldiss; title: Oscar Wilde: may I say nothing?  -- Francis King; title: George Gissing: why should I die, if I can help it?  -- Paul Delany; title: Talking with Joseph Conrad  -- Alan Sillitoe; title: A tardy talk with Edith Wharton  -- John Halperin; title: A visit with Mr. Frost  -- Jay Parini; title: William Faulkner: as I lay dreaming  -- Carl Rollyson; title: Questions for the master: Alfred Edward Housman  -- Colin Dexter; title: Rudyard Kipling: thinking in ink  -- Catherine Aird; title: Arnold Bennett: a great man  -- Margaret Drabble; title: One word less: questioning Samuel Beckett -- Alan W. Friedman.