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Imagining Characters: Six Conversations About Women Writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Willa Cather, Iris Murdoch, and Toni Morriso
In this innovative and wide-ranging book, Byatt and the psychoanalyst Ignes Sodre bring their different sensibilities to bear on six novels they have read and loved: Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park," Bronte's "Villette," George Elliot's "Daniel Deronda," Willa Cather's "The Professor's House," Iris Murdoch's "An Unofficial Rose," and Toni Morrison's "Beloved." The results are nothing less than an education in the ways literature grips its readers and, at times, transforms their lives. Imagining Characters is indispensable, a work of criticism that returns us to the books it discusses with renewed respect and wonder.
Book Details
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: Sep 2nd, 1997
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.01in - 5.24in - 0.68in - 0.53lb
- EAN: 9780679777533
- Categories: • Women Authors• Creative Ability
About the Author
A. S. Byatt was the author of numerous novels, including The Children's Book, The Biographer's Tale, and Possession, which was awarded the Booker Prize. She also wrote two novellas, published together as Angels & Insects, five collections of short stories, and several works of nonfiction. A distinguished critic and author, and the recipient of the 2016 Erasmus Prize for her "inspiring contribution to 'life writing, '" she died in 2023.