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"...has range, variety and a genuinely contemporary set of critical starting points. The contributions are generally well written and manage the difficult feat of combining expertise with accessibility. Individual texts are revisited and general issues of literary and publishing history are explored and overall an encouraging sense of critics measuring a new place for Firbank runs convincingly through the collection." - Desmond Graham, Professor of Poetry, The University of Newcastle upon Tyne "Dealing with taboo subjects such as homosexuality as well as absurdism, dandyism and decadence, Firbank had feet both in the 1890s and in the 1920a. The current collection of essays looks carefully at all these areas in a variety of approaches which are subtle and intelligent and which, whilst cognisant of the place of Firbank, nevertheless strenuously argue for an immediate reassessment of his work. The essays are interesting and entertaining and the entire collection is an important contribution to contemporary discussions of English Literature and of a significant forgotten writer." - Professor Clive Bloom, Chair of Humanities, Middlesex University"
Kurzbeschreibung
This international collection of critical essays addresses Firbank's fiction from a variety of perspectives. The essays cover the full range of Firbank's fictional output and include pieces on Vainglory, Odette D'Antrevernes, Inclinations, Sorrow in Sunlight, The Flower Beneath the Foot and Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli. The minor writings are also addressed. The collection seeks to establish Firbank as a novelist who is more important to the development of literary modernism than his current reputation as a minor cult figure suggests.
